Ship
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; 1 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.
Play from 1:47 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page
Evidence and details
Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 2 · shots 12–17. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.
- Place
- (ship, interior) evidence: frame:1
- People
- shirtless, young, muscular, wearing blue jeans and a dark cap visible
- Mr. Carr (named at t:2:01): elderly, white-haired, bearded, wearing a light checkered shirt, reclining visible, audible
- heavyset, wearing a floral patterned dress, seated behind barrels visible
- wearing a white pith helmet and light-colored shirt, seated visible
- Seen happening
- Three men are seated in a dim, cluttered space with barrels and nets. [frame:1]
- The shirtless man turns his head slightly while the elderly man reclines. [frame:2]
- Close-up of the elderly man speaking with his mouth open. [frame:3]
- The shirtless man leans over and speaks to the man in the pith helmet. [frame:4]
- Also said
- “Brung me young Mr. Carr here.” 2:01 · “Cars dying of a broke heart. I was when I came here. Now I'm dying of homesickness. You see, my girl married the other fellow. If any man steals your girl, suck him in the nose and get another one.” 2:04
- Seen
- wooden barrels [frame:1], fishing nets or ropes hanging from ceiling [frame:4], pith helmet [frame:4]
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: melancholic and conversational; themes: loss, romantic disappointment, maritime trade; style notes: low-key lighting, tight framing on characters, use of close-ups for emotional delivery
Three men are present in a dim, enclosed space with barrels and nets; one speaks of lost trade and heartbreak. A fourth man in a pith helmet appears in a later shot, speaking to the shirtless man.
“Company Schooners out of Sydney gets the cream of the trade.” 1:47 · “I can get a load of copra from Jim. Only to find the Walla Waga benchman in and got the last of it and sailed on his wildfire. It was Walla Waga.” 1:51 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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