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Captain Calamity · Beat 162 · permalink

Ship

49:53–50:24 Registered 1936

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

Frame at 49:5949:59Frame at 50:0550:05Frame at 50:1350:13Frame at 50:2050:20

Play from 49:53 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 85 · shots 402–406. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
ship (ship, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • shirtless man with dark hair, goatee, and earring, appearing pained visible
  • man in light-colored cap and white shirt, leaning over p1 visible
  • man in dark shirt and light pants, standing behind p2 visible
Seen happening
  • A man lies on the ground while another man in a cap leans over him and a third man stands nearby. [frame:1]
  • Close-up of a shirtless man with an earring, showing a pained expression. [frame:2]
  • Close-up of the same shirtless man, still showing distress. [frame:3]
  • The man in the cap continues to attend to the man on the ground, with the man in dark clothes still present. [frame:4]
Also said
“Por lillanana.” 50:19 · “Served me right.” 50:21
Seen
cap [frame:1], earring [frame:2], striped shirt [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and somber; themes: violence, suffering, confrontation; style notes: close-ups emphasize emotional distress; medium shots establish interpersonal tension; lighting is high-contrast with shadows

A man lies on the ground while two others attend to him; one man in a cap leans over him, and another man in dark clothes stands nearby. A third man, shirtless with an earring, is shown in close-up with a pained expression. The transcript contains fragmented Spanish and English lines, including references to 'Samson' and 'Lillanana'.

“un poco suave la tierra como un speak up man patrick came find it nada con su cimini samson took her away he tried a maker tell for you hide treasure he wouldn't believe that she didn't know so he beat her to see that i fight for her” 49:55 · “Pero Samson, me hagas.” 50:16 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 49:59 (passage 49:53–50:24); US record: No renewal found

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