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Captain Calamity · Beat 3 · permalink

Beach

1:31–1:47 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; 1 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:341:34Frame at 1:391:39Frame at 1:421:42Frame at 1:451:45

Play from 1:31 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 2 · shots 8–11. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
beach (beach, exterior) evidence: frame:2
People
  • Bill (named at t:1:35): older man, white hair and beard, wearing a checkered shirt visible, audible
  • shirtless young man, dark hair, wearing light pants visible
  • man wearing a wide-brimmed hat and light-colored shirt, eyes closed visible
Seen happening
  • A sailboat is visible on the water. [frame:2]
  • A shirtless man sits next to the older man. [frame:3]
  • A man in a hat reclines with eyes closed. [frame:4]
Also said
“No.” 1:45
Seen
sailboat [frame:2], wide-brimmed hat [frame:4], checkered shirt [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: casual and reflective; themes: maritime life, nostalgia, intergenerational conversation; style notes: medium shots, natural lighting, outdoor setting

An older man with white hair speaks about a ship named Marigolds while seated near a shirtless man and another man in a hat. A sailboat is visible on the water in the background.

“Your marigolds are a sweet little ship, Bill. Good stuff in her, too. I helped lay the keel myself.” 1:35 · “Independent training in the islands ain't what it used to be.” 1:42 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 1:34 (passage 1:31–1:47); US record: No renewal found

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