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Captain Calamity · Beat 193 · permalink

Ship

58:22–58:36 Registered 1936

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 3 quotes checked against the transcript; 3 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 58:2758:27Frame at 58:3258:32Frame at 58:3458:34

Play from 58:22 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 107 · shots 470–472. 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 man with dark hair, medium build visible
  • woman with short blonde hair, wearing dark sailor-style top with orange bow visible
  • man with dark hair and mustache, wearing dark jacket over white shirt, sweating, looking upward visible
Seen happening
  • A man and a woman are seated at the helm of a boat on open water. [frame:1]
  • A small boat is seen from a distance on the water. [frame:2]
  • A man is shown indoors, looking upward with a distressed expression. [frame:3]
Also said
“¡Helph! ¡Helph!” 58:33
Seen
boat helm [frame:1], small boat [frame:2], sailor-style top with orange bow [frame:1], dark jacket [frame:3]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: danger at sea, rescue attempt, urgency; style notes: medium close-up on characters, wide shot of sea, low-angle close-up on distressed man; bright outdoor lighting, flat indoor lighting

A shirtless man and a woman in a sailor-style outfit are on a boat at sea; a separate shot shows a man in distress indoors. Dialogue indicates someone named Mike went below deck and is after Samson, followed by a cry for help.

“Where's Mike?” 58:22 · “He went below to call you. Below? Holy smoke, he's after Samson.” 58:25 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 58:27 (passage 58:22–58:36); US record: No renewal found

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