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Captain Calamity · Beat 24 · permalink

Street

7:36–8:10 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; 4 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 7:537:53

Play from 7:36 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 15 · shots 75–75. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
street (street, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in dark suit, visible walking visible
  • man in light shirt and hat, visible walking visible
  • woman in light dress, visible walking visible
  • man in light shirt, visible in background visible
Seen happening
  • Two men walk along a street lined with palm trees. [frame:1]
Also said
“Leave the grub to me. Yeah, you better look out to get your throat cut.” 7:56 · “What we need's a drink. Come on, we'll try a job. All right.” 7:56
Seen
palm trees [frame:1], street [frame:1], pedestrians [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: casual and conversational with undertones of danger; themes: urban life, romantic past, criminal undertones; style notes: wide shot, natural daylight, palm trees suggest tropical or coastal setting, vintage film coloration

Two men walk along a palm-lined street while discussing a woman who married into a grocery store; one suggests getting a drink and trying a job. The scene is set outdoors under daylight with palm trees and other pedestrians visible.

“I know a name in this town was kind of sweet on me once. We'll look her up.” 7:56 · “What good will that do? She married into a grocery store.” 7:56 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 7:53 (passage 7:36–8:10); US record: No renewal found

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