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Captain Calamity · Beat 173 · permalink

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53:43–53:46 Registered 1936

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 3 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 53:4553:45

Play from 53:43 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 90 · shots 435–435. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
other (other, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man with gray hair, wearing a dark coat, leaning forward visible
  • person lying on ground, bound with rope, wearing light-colored clothing visible
  • person standing, holding a bottle, wearing a dark top and light pants visible
Seen
bottle [frame:1], rope [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: confrontation, restraint; style notes: medium shot, static framing, high contrast lighting

A man in a dark coat leans over a bound person lying on the ground while another person stands nearby holding a bottle. The setting appears to be an interior room with plain walls.

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 53:45 (passage 53:43–53:46); US record: No renewal found

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