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Captain Calamity · Beat 161 · permalink

Ship

49:27–49:53 Registered 1936

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 3 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 49:4049:40

Play from 49:27 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 84 · shots 401–401. 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
  • person in light-colored dress, partially visible, being pulled up visible
  • shirtless man, muscular, pulling p1 onto boat visible
  • person below, wearing glasses, looking up visible
Seen happening
  • A shirtless man pulls a person in a light dress onto a boat. [frame:1]
Seen
boat railing [frame:1], light-colored dress [frame:1], glasses [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: rescue, struggle, maritime; style notes: medium shot, natural lighting, water background, focus on physical action

A person in a light-colored dress is being pulled onto a boat by a shirtless man; another person is visible below. The scene takes place on water, with no dialogue or on-screen text provided.

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 49:40 (passage 49:27–49:53); US record: No renewal found

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