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Captain Calamity · Beat 17 · permalink

Ship

4:42–4:58 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; 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 4:434:43Frame at 4:454:45Frame at 4:524:52Frame at 4:574:57

Play from 4:42 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 12 · shots 47–51. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
ship (ship, exterior) evidence: frame:2
People
  • shirtless, wearing a dark cap and light trousers, young adult male visible, audible
  • shirtless, dark hair, seen from behind or side, working on deck visible
  • shirtless, dark hair, standing near p2, assisting with ropes or equipment visible
Seen happening
  • A man shouts while standing at the ship's wheel. [frame:4]
  • Two crew members work together on deck near rigging. [frame:2]
Seen
ship's wheel, sail rigging, ropes and deck equipment, rocky shore in background, blue sky
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: urgent and commanding; themes: sailing, command, arrival; style notes: medium and close shots, bright outdoor lighting, static framing focused on character action

A shirtless man in a cap shouts orders on a ship's deck as other crew members work nearby; the sea and a rocky shore are visible in the background. The transcript indicates he is announcing their approach to land.

“Every level on deck. Listen, all you sailing men. We're coming to land again.” 4:46 · “All right.” 4:57 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 4:43 (passage 4:42–4:58); US record: No renewal found

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