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Captain Calamity · Beat 196 · permalink

Ship

1:00:02–1:00:23 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 1:00:041:00:04Frame at 1:00:111:00:11Frame at 1:00:201:00:20Frame at 1:00:221:00:22

Play from 1:00:02 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 109 · shots 481–485. 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, wearing a dark sailor cap, muscular build visible
  • woman with short dark hair, wearing a dark sailor-style dress with white trim visible
  • man wearing a white sailor uniform and cap visible, audible
Seen happening
  • A shirtless man in a sailor cap holds a woman in a sailor-style dress while another man in a white uniform watches. [frame:1]
  • A drawing of a sailboat is shown. [frame:3]
  • A dark, silhouetted sailboat is shown against a night sky. [frame:4]
Seen
sailor cap, sailor-style dress, white sailor uniform, sailboat drawing, silhouetted sailboat
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: romantic, theatrical; themes: romantic gesture, sailor motif, theatrical staging; style notes: medium close-up framing, bright studio lighting on characters, abrupt cut to stylized drawings and night scene

A shirtless man in a sailor cap holds a woman in a sailor-style dress while another man in a white uniform watches; the scene cuts to a drawing of a sailboat and then to a dark, silhouetted sailboat at night. A voice suggests the man kiss the woman.

“Hey, why don't you let me carry you off the fine young man? Well, I wanted to go for a sale.” 60:02 · “Well, don't stand there gaping at her. Take her in your arms and give her a kiss. That's what she's waiting for.” 60:11 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 1:00:04 (passage 1:00:02–1:00:23); US record: No renewal found

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