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Captain Calamity · Beat 30 · permalink

Bar

9:29–9:50 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; 2 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 9:339:33Frame at 9:399:39Frame at 9:459:45

Play from 9:29 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 19 · shots 87–89. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
bar (bar, interior) evidence: frame:2
People
  • older man, glasses, bow tie, dark suit, wearing a headlamp visible, audible
  • younger man, dark cap, green shirt, clean-shaven visible, audible
Seen happening
  • Man p1 holds a coin to his mouth while wearing a headlamp. [frame:1]
  • Man p2 extends his hand toward p1, who is holding the coin at a bar. [frame:2]
  • Man p2 speaks with an intense expression. [frame:3]
Also said
“Why, that's a Spanish tabloon. That's the real thing. That's what pirates used to lay aboard ships in Plunder Towns to get.” 9:34
Seen
gold coin, headlamp, bar counter, bottles on shelves, dark cap
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: curious and tense; themes: discovery, value, pirate lore; style notes: tight close-ups, dim lighting with focused illumination on faces and objects, period costume

Two men examine a gold coin in a dimly lit interior; one identifies it as a Spanish tabloon used by pirates. The scene includes dialogue about its value and historical use.

“Know what it is?” 9:31 · “Looks like gold. What do you take for it? A couple of dollars? A couple of dollars.” 9:34 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 9:33 (passage 9:29–9:50); US record: No renewal found

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