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Captain Calamity · Beat 167 · permalink

Ship

51:57–52:17 Registered 1936

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

Frame at 51:5951:59Frame at 52:0452:04Frame at 52:1252:12Frame at 52:1652:16

Play from 51:57 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 87 · shots 415–419. 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
  • man wearing white long-sleeve shirt and sailor's cap, medium build visible
  • shirtless man with dark hair, muscular build, wearing light pants and belt visible
  • shirtless man, seen from behind, handling ropes on deck visible
  • man lying on deck, wearing light pants and dark cap visible
Seen happening
  • A man in a sailor's cap gestures while standing on a ship. [frame:1]
  • A shirtless man leans over a ship's wheel. [frame:2]
  • A shirtless man handles ropes on deck near another man lying down. [frame:3]
  • A shirtless man in light pants and cap works near a dark doorway. [frame:4]
Seen
sailor's cap, ship's wheel, coiled ropes, ship deck
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense or labor-intensive; themes: maritime labor, physical exertion; style notes: medium close-ups and medium shots, high-contrast lighting, grainy film texture

A man in a sailor's cap and white shirt is shown on a ship, followed by shirtless men handling ropes and a ship's wheel. One man is seen lying on the deck while another works nearby.

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 51:59 (passage 51:57–52:17); US record: No renewal found

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