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Captain Calamity · Beat 47 · permalink

Beach

12:31–12:51 Registered 1936

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks flagged: visible event not seen. 2 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 12:3312:33Frame at 12:4012:40Frame at 12:4912:49Frame at 12:5112:51

Play from 12:31 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 28 · shots 120–124. 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, frame:4
People
  • Bill (named at t:12:32): man in blue striped shirt and light-colored trousers visible, audible
  • man in dark blue shirt and light-colored trousers visible, audible
Seen happening
  • The second man is seen lying on the ground. [frame:2]
  • The two men are seen embracing each other. [frame:3]
  • The two men continue to embrace on the beach. [frame:4]
Seen
striped shirt [frame:1], dark blue shirt [frame:2], light-colored trousers [frame:1, frame:2], beach with pebbles and water [frame:4]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: reconciliatory; themes: reunion, friendship, physical comedy; style notes: medium shots, natural lighting, outdoor setting

Two men greet each other on a beach, exchange dialogue, and embrace. One man is seen lying on the ground during the interaction.

“It's good to see you again, Bill.” 12:32 · “It's good to see you, too. You know, of all the guys I don't like, you're the one I like most. Get in there. Look! Yes!” 12:38 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 12:33 (passage 12:31–12:51); US record: No renewal found

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