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Captain Calamity · Beat 169 · permalink

Ship

52:38–53:06 Registered 1936

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 2 quotes checked against the transcript; 4 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 52:4152:41Frame at 52:4752:47Frame at 52:5452:54Frame at 53:0353:03

Play from 52:38 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 87 · shots 424–431. 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
  • shirtless, dark hair, muscular build, wearing trousers visible
  • wearing dark shirt and cap, partially visible visible
  • shirtless, dark hair, wearing trousers, diving visible
  • man with dark hair and mustache, wearing striped shirt, smoking a cigarette visible
Seen happening
  • Men are on the deck of a ship near a mountainous coast. [frame:1]
  • A man dives from a height into water. [frame:3]
  • A man with a cigarette is shown in close-up. [frame:4]
Seen
ship rigging [frame:1], mountainous coast [frame:1], cigarette [frame:4]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: action-oriented with a moment of close-up intensity; themes: seafaring, physical daring; style notes: exterior daylight shots with high contrast lighting, medium and long shots for action, tight close-up for character focus

Men are on a ship's deck near a mountainous coast; one man dives from a height into water. A close-up shows a man with a cigarette. No names are spoken in the transcript.

“¡Suscríbete al canal!” 52:38 · “¡Verdad!” 53:04 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 52:41 (passage 52:38–53:06); US record: No renewal found

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