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Captain Calamity · Beat 20 · permalink

Ship

5:44–6:26 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; 2 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 5:465:46Frame at 5:595:59Frame at 6:126:12Frame at 6:256:25

Play from 5:44 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 12 · shots 59–67. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
ship (ship, exterior) evidence: frame:3
People
  • man in dark blue captain's uniform and cap, medium build, smiling visible, audible
  • man in light-colored pith helmet and light shirt, medium build visible, audible
  • man in gray suit, visible from waist up in water visible
Seen happening
  • A man in a captain's hat sits in a boat and gestures with his hand. [frame:1]
  • The captain and the man in the pith helmet sit side by side in the boat, the captain holding a knife. [frame:2]
  • A man in a gray suit is in the water next to the boat, while the captain and the man in the pith helmet look on. [frame:3]
  • The captain and the man in the pith helmet lean forward together, looking at something in the water. [frame:4]
Also said
“Good boy, my good boy. A shark? Yeah, a female of the species.” 6:06
Seen
knife [frame:2], pith helmet [frame:2], captain's cap [frame:1], small boat [frame:3], large ship [frame:3]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and conversational; themes: treasure, maritime adventure, teamwork; style notes: medium close-ups and wide shots, natural daylight on water, simple costume design

Two men are in a small boat near a larger vessel; one is in a captain's hat and the other in a pith helmet. They discuss a Spanish Dublun and a shark while one man holds a knife.

“today? I'd have gone after it myself. Oh, Mike will get it. He's the best underwater man on the island.” 5:46 · “Is it good to spend? Some people might want it. Well, then why don't you say so? Here's me without a copper in my pocket, let alone a gold piece. What is it? The Spanish Dublun.” 5:53 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 5:46 (passage 5:44–6:26); US record: No renewal found

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