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Captain Calamity · Beat 22 · permalink

Ship

6:56–7:18 Registered 1936

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 1 quote checked against the transcript; 4 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 7:077:07

Play from 6:56 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 13 · shots 73–73. 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
  • man in light-colored shirt, visible from waist up, gesturing with right arm visible
  • man in dark shirt and hat, standing near railing, partially obscured visible
  • man in light shirt, visible behind p1, leaning on railing visible
  • person in dark clothing, seated in background on deck visible
Seen happening
  • A person gestures while speaking on a ship's deck. [frame:1]
Seen
ship railing, ropes and rigging, deck planks
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense or exasperated; themes: conflict, group dynamics, maritime setting; style notes: medium shot from above, showing deck and railing; natural daylight; composition emphasizes group interaction

A group of people is visible on a ship's deck near railings, with one person gesturing while speaking. The transcript includes a line spoken at 6:56 about 'they're all alike,' suggesting a character's exasperation.

“time enough for that later what did i tell you they're all alike uh...” 6:56 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 7:07 (passage 6:56–7:18); US record: No renewal found

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