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Captain Calamity · Beat 43 · permalink

Beach

11:20–11:42 Registered 1936

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; 7 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.

Frame at 11:2211:22Frame at 11:2611:26Frame at 11:3111:31Frame at 11:3711:37

Play from 11:20 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 25 · shots 106–110. 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
  • man wearing a dark beret and striped shirt, smiling, medium build visible
  • woman with dark hair, wearing a beaded necklace and red top, smiling visible
  • man wearing a white cap and brown shirt, seated on beach, profile view visible
  • man wearing a dark beret and gray shirt, seated on beach, smiling visible
  • man wearing a striped tank top and white cap, restraining p1 visible
  • woman wearing a floral swimsuit, standing near p1 visible
  • man wearing a light shirt and straw hat, standing near p5 visible
Seen happening
  • A man and a woman smile at each other in close proximity. [frame:1]
  • Two men sit on a beach at night, one looking toward the water. [frame:2]
  • The same two men remain seated on the beach, one smiling toward camera. [frame:3]
  • A man in a striped shirt is held by another man while a woman in a swimsuit stands nearby and another man observes. [frame:4]
Also said
“You keep away from her. Run along. I teach you. Mike!” 11:25 · “No, the diablo.” 11:40
Seen
beaded necklace, dark beret, striped shirt, white cap, brown shirt, gray shirt, floral swimsuit, striped tank top, straw hat
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and confrontational; themes: conflict, romantic tension, intervention; style notes: close-ups and medium shots, low-key lighting in interior scenes, natural lighting on beach at night

Two men are seen on a beach at night, followed by a scene inside a dimly lit structure where a man in a striped shirt is restrained by others while a woman in a swimsuit stands nearby. No names are spoken that can be attached to the individuals shown.

“Nice.” 11:21 · “Nice.” 11:23 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 11:22 (passage 11:20–11:42); US record: No renewal found

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