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Captain Calamity · Beat 177 · permalink

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53:55–53:57 Registered 1936

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 53:5653:56

Play from 53:55 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 94 · shots 439–439. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
(other, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man, dark sweater, light trousers, short hair visible
  • arm only, light skin visible
Seen happening
  • man holds pistol against wall [frame:1]
Seen
pistol [frame:1], wall-mounted lamp [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: confrontation, suspense; style notes: medium shot, high contrast lighting, static framing

A man in a dark sweater and light trousers holds a pistol against a wall, with another person's arm visible behind him. The setting appears to be an interior room with a wall-mounted lamp.

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 53:56 (passage 53:55–53:57); US record: No renewal found

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