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Captain Calamity · Beat 23 · permalink

Ship

7:18–7:36 Registered 1936

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 7:277:27

Play from 7:18 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 14 · shots 74–74. 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 suit and white hat, standing on deck visible
  • man in dark shirt and cap, partially in water visible
Seen happening
  • A man in a light suit reaches down to help another man in the water. [frame:1]
Seen
white hat [frame:1], ship railing [frame:1], dark cap [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: rescue, danger; style notes: medium shot, bright outdoor lighting, clear water background

A man in a light suit and white hat leans over a railing to help another man in dark clothes who is in the water. The scene takes place on a ship with water visible below.

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 7:27 (passage 7:18–7:36); US record: No renewal found

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