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Captain Calamity · Beat 194 · permalink

Ship

58:36–59:30 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; 6 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 58:5658:56Frame at 59:1859:18Frame at 59:2059:20Frame at 59:2559:25

Play from 58:36 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 108 · shots 473–476. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
ship (ship, exterior) evidence: frame:4
People
  • shirtless, dark curly hair, wearing light-colored pants, holding a gun visible
  • Capitán Bill (named at t:58:37): shirtless, wearing a dark captain's hat and light pants, muscular build visible
  • shirtless, dark hair, wearing light pants, standing at ship's wheel visible
  • Mac (named at t:59:17): wearing a white short-sleeved shirt and captain's hat, light pants visible, audible
  • Bill (named at t:59:17): wearing a white short-sleeved shirt and captain's hat, light pants visible
  • Madge Lewis (named at t:59:17): wearing a white short-sleeved shirt and captain's hat, light pants visible
Seen happening
  • A shirtless man holds a gun to another shirtless man's chest while being restrained by a third man in a captain's hat. [frame:1]
  • A shirtless man with curly hair holds a pole against a blue sky. [frame:2]
  • The man in the captain's hat grips the throat of the man holding the gun. [frame:3]
  • Two men in captain's hats greet each other on deck while a third man stands at the wheel. [frame:4]
Also said
“Gracias. que no me olvidaré. Sí, sé, sé cómo te sientes, pero... ¡Vamos, chico, chico! Pensad en todos los océanos que hemos visto todavía. Es un mundo de divertido esperando por ti y yo.” 59:02 · “ahoy come on kid hello Mac Bill we saw your distress signal, something wrong? plenty that's wrong and lots that's right hello Mac Madge Madge Lewis what are you doing aboard this ship? never mind what she's doing, don't stand there gaping it the girl take her in your arms and give her a kiss that's what she's been waiting for we've been lying here at Keeker waiting for you to get in so that you two can get married” 59:17
Seen
gun, ship's wheel, captain's hats, pole
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and dramatic, shifting to relief and reunion; themes: confrontation, rescue, marriage, loyalty; style notes: medium close-ups and two-shots on deck; bright outdoor lighting; theatrical blocking

Two shirtless men confront each other on a ship, one holding a gun; a third man in a captain's hat intervenes. Later, two men in uniformed shirts greet each other on deck with a woman nearby, referencing a distress signal and a planned marriage.

“¿Qué estás haciendo? ¡Lete me ir, Capitán Bill! Este hombre me pertenece! ¡Va a matar por lo que me ha hecho a mi anana! ¡Va a matar y a la pierna en la cabeza!” 58:37 · “López es muy bueno para él. Él debería morir como mi Anadá.” 58:52 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 58:56 (passage 58:36–59:30); US record: No renewal found

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