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Captain Calamity · Beat 170 · permalink

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53:06–53:19 Registered 1936

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

Frame at 53:1353:13

Play from 53:06 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 87 · shots 432–432. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
other (other) evidence: frame:1
People
  • shirtless, dark pants, standing with hands on hips visible
  • shirtless, light-colored trousers, wearing a dark cap, standing with fists clenched visible
  • shirtless, bent over, interacting with a white object held by another person visible
  • shirtless, partially visible behind p3, holding a white object visible
Seen happening
  • A group of shirtless men gather around a central figure holding a white object. [frame:1]
  • One man in light trousers and a cap stands nearby with fists clenched. [frame:1]
Seen
white object (possibly a bowl or helmet), dark cap, light-colored trousers
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense or confrontational; themes: group confrontation, physical presence, unclear ritual or challenge; style notes: medium shot, low-contrast lighting, grainy film texture, static framing

A group of shirtless men are gathered around a central figure who is holding a white object; one man in light trousers and a cap stands nearby. The scene appears to be outdoors or in a large open space with diffuse lighting.

“¡Verdad!” 53:07 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 53:13 (passage 53:06–53:19); US record: No renewal found

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