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Captain Calamity · Beat 48 · permalink

Beach

12:51–13:03 Registered 1936

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 2 quotes checked against the transcript; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 12:5612:56Frame at 13:0213:02

Play from 12:51 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 28 · shots 125–126. 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 in blue striped shirt and light pants, lying on ground, then standing visible
  • man in dark blue shirt, leaning over p1, then standing and placing hand on p1's shoulder visible
Seen happening
  • Man p2 leans over man p1 who is lying on the beach. [frame:1]
  • Man p1 stands up and man p2 places his hand on p1's shoulder. [frame:2]
Seen
striped shirt, dark blue shirt, beach with water and boats in background
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: neutral to slightly amicable; themes: human interaction, beach setting; style notes: medium shots, natural outdoor lighting, static camera

Two men are on a beach; one is lying down while the other leans over him, then they stand and one places a hand on the other's shoulder. The transcript includes brief dialogue about agreement and thanks.

“Well, how about it?” 12:52 · “Plenty. Thank you very much.” 12:55 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 12:56 (passage 12:51–13:03); US record: No renewal found

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