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Captain Calamity · Beat 189 · permalink

Ship

56:56–57:22 Registered 1936

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 2 quotes checked against the transcript; 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 57:0057:00Frame at 57:0757:07Frame at 57:1657:16

Play from 56:56 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 103 · shots 464–466. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
ship (ship, exterior) evidence: frame:3
People
  • shirtless, dark hair, wearing light-colored pants and a belt visible
  • lying down, wearing a light-colored shirt, appears injured or ill visible
  • woman with short blonde hair, wearing a dark sailor-style top with white trim and a red bow visible
Seen happening
  • A shirtless man leans over a man lying down, appearing to tend to him. [frame:1]
  • The shirtless man walks away from the lying man toward a door marked '4'. [frame:2]
  • The shirtless man stands at a ship's wheel on deck, with a woman beside him. [frame:3]
Seen
ship's wheel, door with number 4, lantern on wall, life preserver with 'MARIGOLD SYDNEY'
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and urgent; themes: rescue, shipboard drama, dialogue-driven tension; style notes: medium and wide shots, high-contrast lighting, studio set with painted backdrop for sea

A shirtless man tends to another man lying down, then walks toward a door; later, the same man stands at a ship's wheel with a woman beside him on deck. The transcript includes a Spanish thank you and a question about a 'chonera' and 'wildfire'.

“Gracias.” 57:01 · “Oh, Madge, ¿sí que ese chonera que hubo aquí? Es el wildfire.” 57:10 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 57:00 (passage 56:56–57:22); US record: No renewal found

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