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Captain Calamity · Beat 184 · permalink

Ship

54:48–55:16 Registered 1936

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 4 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 54:5254:52Frame at 55:0355:03Frame at 55:1355:13

Play from 54:48 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 100 · shots 453–455. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
ship (ship, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • shirtless, dark hair, medium build visible, audible
  • wearing a dark sailor cap, shirtless, muscular visible
  • wearing a dark sailor cap, shirtless, holding a man by the throat visible
  • wearing a white sailor cap, dark jacket, being choked visible
Seen happening
  • A man in a sailor cap holds another man by the throat on a ship deck. [frame:1]
  • A shirtless man pleads while another man in a sailor cap grips his throat. [frame:2]
  • A shirtless man in a sailor cap stands alone on deck and shouts 'Ahoy!'. [frame:3]
Also said
“Ahoy!” 55:14 · “¡Más!” 54:51
Seen
ship deck [frame:1], sailor caps [frame:1], ropes [frame:1], ocean [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense, confrontational; themes: conflict, surrender, accusation, maritime setting; style notes: medium shots on deck, natural daylight, high contrast between dark uniforms and bright sea, static framing

On a ship deck, a man in a sailor cap holds another man by the throat while others look on; one man pleads for his life and claims innocence. A man in a sailor cap shouts 'Ahoy!' from the deck as the sea surrounds them.

“¡Don't kill me, Bill! ¡I give up! ¡I surrender! ¡Let me hear you! ¡Gapten! ¡Ah, he'll cheat! ¡He'll hang!” 54:56 · “No, no, no. I didn't do it. I didn't kill him. It was something. I swear, Bill. Come on, get him below.” 55:04 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 54:52 (passage 54:48–55:16); US record: No renewal found

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