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Captain Calamity · Beat 15 · permalink

Ship

4:02–4:40 Registered 1936

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 1 quote checked against the transcript; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 4:074:07Frame at 4:194:19Frame at 4:284:28Frame at 4:354:35

Play from 4:02 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech; cut falls inside a spoken line: no pause was available without exceeding the length cap. Sequence 11 · shots 41–45. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
ship (ship, exterior) evidence: frame:2
People
  • shirtless man, wearing a dark sailor hat and light trousers, smiling visible
  • crew members visible on deck and in rigging, wearing dark clothing visible
Seen happening
  • A shirtless man in a sailor hat smiles at the camera. [frame:1]
  • Crew members are visible on the deck and rigging of a large sailing ship. [frame:2]
  • A man stands at the ship's wheel, with sails unfurled and crew in the rigging. [frame:3]
  • The shirtless man in the sailor hat stands at the ship's wheel, smiling. [frame:4]
Seen
sailboat [frame:2], ship's wheel [frame:4], sailor hat [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: adventurous and confident; themes: seafaring, adventure, crew camaraderie; style notes: bright outdoor lighting, medium and wide shots showing the ship and crew, clear blue sky

A shirtless man in a sailor hat stands on a sailing ship under a clear sky, with other crew visible on deck and in the rigging. The transcript includes a sung verse about being 'riders of the rolling sea' and sailing uncharted waters.

“Riders of the rolling sea. The rolling waves become our slaves. We make them all behave the way that we want them to. Ship ahoy. We're riders of the rolling sea. We sail the rough uncharted parts. No fear within our hearts and ready to die or do. Ship ahoy.” 4:16 automatic transcript, may be wrong

The record

No renewal found An automated finding, not a verdict. A renewal would have appeared in the Copyright Office's renewal registrations 27 to 29 years after the term began. Those volumes are loaded and our parse of them found no matching renewal. If that is right, a work published 1931–1963 that was not renewed entered the public domain at the end of its 28th year; the volumes are OCR of old print, and the method page reports how often the parse has been found to miss one. Evidence dossier. The finding concerns the US copyright record for the film; it is not clearance for any use, and this page's annotation is machine output.

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Frame from Captain Calamity (1936) at 4:07 (passage 4:02–4:40); US record: No renewal found

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