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Captain Calamity · Beat 159 · permalink

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48:26–48:58 Registered 1936

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

Frame at 48:4248:42

Play from 48:26 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 82 · shots 398–398. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
other (other, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • shirtless, dark hair, medium build visible
  • shirtless, dark hair, medium build, wearing light-colored pants visible
Seen happening
  • Two shirtless men stand close together in a dim interior. [frame:1]
Also said
“Gracias.” 48:47 · “¿Me refiere a él?” 48:47
Seen
wall-mounted lamp [frame:1], wooden wall paneling [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense or conversational; themes: romantic rivalry, maritime reference, male camaraderie or confrontation; style notes: medium close-up, dim lighting, static framing

Two shirtless men are visible in a dimly lit interior space; one speaks about a woman who reportedly loves him, while another line references 'Captain' and a ship. No names are spoken that can be attached to the visible individuals.

“no captain only last night she tell me she loves me well it looks like it my gold son she's come off to more than one ship” 48:49 · “i know you come” 48:58 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 48:42 (passage 48:26–48:58); US record: No renewal found

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