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Captain Calamity · Beat 32 · permalink

Beach

9:59–10:16 Registered 1936

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 10:0510:05Frame at 10:1410:14

Play from 9:59 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 20 · shots 91–92. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
beach (beach, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man wearing a striped brown shirt and a white cap, standing on a beach visible
  • man wearing a dark shirt and a dark cap, standing on a beach visible
  • group of people including women in patterned dresses and a shirtless man sitting on a platform visible
Seen
{'item': 'pebble beach', 'frame': 1}, {'item': 'wooden platform', 'frame': 2}, {'item': 'building with patterned wall', 'frame': 2}, {'item': 'women in patterned dresses', 'frame': 2}, {'item': 'shirtless man sitting', 'frame': 2}
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: neutral; themes: coastal setting, social gathering; style notes: two-shot composition, natural outdoor lighting, medium shots showing group dynamics

Two men stand on a pebble beach near water in one shot; a group of people, including women in patterned dresses, are gathered on a wooden platform near a building in another. No dialogue or on-screen text is present in these frames.

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 10:05 (passage 9:59–10:16); US record: No renewal found

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