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Captain Calamity · Beat 37 · permalink

Town square

11:02–11:03 Registered 1936

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 7 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 11:0211:02

Play from 11:02 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 23 · shots 100–100. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
town_square (town square, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • shirtless man, wearing patterned pants, seated with back to camera visible
  • woman in patterned dress, dancing, mid-motion visible
  • woman in patterned dress, dancing, facing p2 visible
  • man in blue shirt, seated on right, watching visible
  • man in striped shirt, standing behind dancers visible
  • man in white shirt, standing behind dancers visible
  • man in dark shirt, seated on platform, watching visible
Seen
wooden platform [frame:1], patterned dresses [frame:1], striped shirt [frame:1], blue shirt [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: lively; themes: community gathering, dance, nighttime social event; style notes: low-angle shot, dim ambient lighting, medium shot framing the group, period costume

A group of people in patterned dresses and casual attire are gathered on a wooden platform at night; two women dance while others watch. A shirtless man sits in the foreground with his back to the camera.

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 11:02 (passage 11:02–11:03); US record: No renewal found

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