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Captain Calamity · Beat 163 · permalink

Ship

50:24–50:46 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; 9 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 50:2650:26Frame at 50:3250:32Frame at 50:4250:42

Play from 50:24 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 85 · shots 407–409. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
ship (ship, exterior) evidence: frame:3
People
  • shirtless, dark hair, mustache, earring, medium build visible
  • wearing light-colored t-shirt and pants, standing over injured man visible
  • wearing dark uniform with cap, attending to injured man visible
  • wearing sailor suit with red neckerchief, young, standing visible
  • Neil (named at t:50:27): wearing light t-shirt and cap, speaking, standing visible, audible
  • injured, lying down, wearing striped shirt visible
  • unseen, referred to as 'Doc' mentioned
  • unseen, referred to as 'Mike' mentioned
  • Pierre (named at t:50:27): unseen, referred to as 'Pierre' mentioned
Seen happening
  • Men are preparing on deck, one standing over an injured man. [frame:3]
Also said
“¡Vamos a la de ellos!” 50:36 · “Do what you can for him, Doc. Yes. Into the boat, Mike. Twenty rounds each man. I'm leaving Doc and you in charge to hold the deck.” 50:38
Seen
sailor suit with red neckerchief, cap, boat deck with rigging, injured man on deck, striped shirt
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and urgent; themes: imminent conflict, leadership under pressure, medical aid in crisis; style notes: medium close-ups and medium shots on deck; natural daylight; high-contrast lighting on faces; action-oriented framing

A man is being attended to on a boat while others prepare for an impending attack. Orders are given to arm men and hold the deck as the group anticipates enemy forces.

“Gracias.” 50:25 · “You're getting off easy, Pierre As soon as they sober up their men They come to attack you Get ready, Neil We'll do better than that” 50:27 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 50:26 (passage 50:24–50:46); US record: No renewal found

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