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Captain Calamity · Beat 168 · permalink

Ship

52:17–52:38 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; 1 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 52:1952:19Frame at 52:2152:21Frame at 52:2552:25Frame at 52:3352:33

Play from 52:17 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 87 · shots 420–423. 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, frame:4
People
  • shirtless, muscular, wearing light-colored trousers and a dark belt, dark hair visible
  • wearing a dark cap and light-colored uniform, back to camera visible
  • wearing a dark cap, seen from behind visible
  • wearing a light-colored top and dark cap, holding a small object visible
Seen happening
  • A shirtless man bends over on a ship's deck, handling a rope or cable. [frame:1]
  • A man in a cap and light trousers stands at the ship's wheel, a pistol visible at his hip. [frame:2]
  • A shirtless man is seen amidst a group of others on the deck, appearing to be in a struggle or intense activity. [frame:3]
  • A man in a cap looks up at another man holding a small object, with the sea and a distant shore in the background. [frame:4]
Seen
ship's wheel [frame:2], pistol [frame:2], rope/cable [frame:1], rigging [frame:4], sailboat mast [frame:4]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and active; themes: conflict, seafaring, physical struggle; style notes: medium and close shots, high-contrast lighting, focus on physical action and character interaction on deck

A shirtless man is seen on a ship's deck, handling equipment and interacting with others. The setting is clearly a vessel at sea, with rigging and water visible.

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 52:19 (passage 52:17–52:38); US record: No renewal found

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