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Captain Calamity · Beat 19 · permalink

Water

5:21–5:44 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 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 5:265:26Frame at 5:325:32Frame at 5:355:35Frame at 5:415:41

Play from 5:21 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 12 · shots 55–58. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
water (ship, exterior) evidence: frame:4
People
  • man in light-colored suit and white hat, seated in small boat visible, audible
  • man in dark shirt and cap, seated in small boat visible
  • man in swimwear, diving from larger ship visible
Seen happening
  • A man dives from a larger ship into the water. [frame:4]
Seen
small boat [frame:1], larger ship [frame:4], gold piece [t:5:26]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: melancholic and tense; themes: loss, memory, sudden action; style notes: medium shots on water, bright daylight, static camera, dramatic framing of diving action

Two men are in a small boat near a larger vessel; one man speaks about forgetting a woman and a gold piece, then another man dives from the larger ship into the water. The scene takes place on water with no clear indication of time of day.

“It'll be a long time before I look at another woman.” 5:22 · “She gave me this to remember her by. All I want now is to forget. Hey, that looked like money. It was once. A lucky gold piece. A gold piece? Hey, backwater, Mike! Get it!” 5:26 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 5:26 (passage 5:21–5:44); US record: No renewal found

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