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Captain Calamity · Beat 171 · permalink

Ship

53:19–53:37 Registered 1936

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 1 quote checked against the transcript; 4 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 53:2853:28

Play from 53:19 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 88 · shots 433–433. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
ship (ship, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man wearing a captain's hat and dark coat over a white shirt, mustache, middle-aged visible
  • shirtless man, dark hair, smiling visible
  • shirtless man, partially visible, wearing a dark hat visible
  • shirtless man, partially visible in background visible
Seen
captain's hat, dark coat, white shirt
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense or urgent; themes: authority, group dynamics; style notes: tight framing on central figure, dim lighting, high contrast

A man in a captain's hat and coat stands among shirtless men in a dimly lit, crowded space. One man speaks the word '¡Vamos!' at 53:34.

“¡Vamos!” 53:34 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 53:28 (passage 53:19–53:37); US record: No renewal found

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