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Captain Calamity · Beat 150 · permalink

Ship

45:38–46:03 Registered 1936

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 3 quotes checked against the transcript; 4 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 2 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 45:4845:48Frame at 46:0046:00

Play from 45:38 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 80 · shots 380–381. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
ship (ship, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • shirtless man, dark hair, wearing sunglasses and a hat, holding a stick or baton visible
  • woman with dark hair, wearing a patterned strapless dress visible
  • woman with light hair, wearing a dark sailor-style top with white trim and a headband visible
  • man with gray hair, wearing a light-colored short-sleeve shirt and light pants, hands on hips visible
Seen happening
  • Four people stand on a ship's deck, facing each other in conversation. [frame:1]
  • The shirtless man walks forward on the deck, followed by the man in the light shirt. [frame:2]
Also said
“Dublín no está tan seguro. He es el de la verdadero.” 45:58
Seen
ship deck [frame:1], sail rigging [frame:1], sailor-style top [frame:1], sunglasses [frame:1], hat [frame:1], stick or baton [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and fragmented; themes: conflict among crew, uncertainty about truth, gender roles on a ship; style notes: medium shots on a ship deck, bright daylight, static framing with slight movement between shots

Four people are on the deck of a ship; one man is shirtless and speaking to others. The transcript contains fragmented Spanish phrases, including references to 'girls', 'crew', and 'Joblin'.

“¿Puedo decir que es un problema para él? No puedo decir. ¿Qué están en aquí para? Solo la verdad es que la verdad es que no es. Pero si no es para no bien.” 45:38 · “Si no hubiera el girls, ¿y me hubiera de ser feliz? ¿No hubiera de ser feliz? ¿Puedo haber lido el before y no hubiera de ser feliz? ¿Y con 20 hombres en el crew? Ah, 20 o 100. ¿Qué me ha dado un buen? Ah, pero ¿qué de Joblin?” 45:47 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 45:48 (passage 45:38–46:03); US record: No renewal found

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