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Captain Calamity · Beat 2 · permalink

Ship

0:46–1:31 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 1:001:00Frame at 1:181:18Frame at 1:211:21Frame at 1:281:28

Play from 0:46 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: cutting rhythm changes. Sequence 2 · shots 2–7. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
ship (ship, interior) evidence: frame:2, frame:3, frame:4
People
  • shirtless man, young, muscular, wearing blue jeans and a dark cap visible
  • older man with white hair, wearing light shirt and pants, seated visible
  • man wearing pith helmet and light-colored suit, seated, holding something small visible
  • shirtless man, young, smiling, wearing blue jeans and a dark cap visible
  • woman, partially visible, wearing patterned dress visible
  • Bill (named at t:1:12): voice only, speaking about a drunken sailor and Bill audible
Seen happening
  • A sailboat is seen sailing on the water. [frame:1]
  • A man in a pith helmet sits inside a vessel, holding something small. [frame:2]
  • A shirtless man sits next to an older man, while a woman stands behind them. [frame:3]
  • A shirtless man wearing a dark cap looks to the side. [frame:4]
Also said
“You should have put her on my chest where I could get a look at her now and then.” 1:12 · “Scratch her, will you? She itches.” 1:12
Seen
sailboat [frame:1], pith helmet [frame:2], bottle [frame:2], dark cap [frame:4]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: lighthearted, humorous; themes: maritime life, humor, crew dynamics; style notes: medium close-ups, interior lighting, casual framing

A sailboat is seen on the water, followed by scenes inside a vessel with several men, one of whom is shirtless and another wearing a pith helmet. A man speaks about a drunken sailor and a woman named Bill, referencing her position and an itch.

“What shall we do with a drunken sailor? What shall we do with a drunken sailor? What shall we do with a drunken sailor? Early in the morning?” 1:12 · “There she is, Bill. Sailing right across your shoulder blades.” 1:12 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 (passage 0:46–1:31); US record: No renewal found

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