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Captain Calamity · Beat 49 · permalink

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13:03–13:30 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; 3 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 13:1013:10Frame at 13:1913:19Frame at 13:2113:21Frame at 13:2713:27

Play from 13:03 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 29 · shots 127–130. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
(other, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man, wearing striped shirt and light pants, dark cap visible
  • woman, blonde, wearing white dress, earrings visible
  • Sam Siquiette Marvell (named at t:13:07): man, wearing dark vest over white shirt, dark cap visible
Seen happening
  • Three people stand near a table with a checkered cloth. [frame:1]
  • A man in a dark vest leans toward a seated woman. [frame:2]
  • A man and woman look at each other closely. [frame:3]
  • A man holds a woman's hand while looking down at her. [frame:4]
Also said
“Go see for yourself.” 13:10 · “I see you again, eh? Yeah, I'll keep an eye peeled. Bill, the brandy's waiting. And Anna said you wanted to be... Yeah, well, and Anna's an optimist. Say, my good luck. Let's hear it. Well, take a look.” 13:13
Seen
checkered tablecloth, wicker chair, dark cap, earrings
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: intimate and conversational; themes: social interaction, romantic tension, dialogue-driven scene; style notes: medium close-ups, dim lighting, static camera, period costume

A man in a striped shirt and a man in a dark vest interact with a woman in a white dress inside a dimly lit room with rustic decor. The transcript includes greetings, a name reference, and dialogue about brandy and optimism.

“Dear man! - Hi, ma'am! I'm glad to see you.” 13:03 · “is uh... monsieur Sam Siquiette Marvell” 13:07 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 13:10 (passage 13:03–13:30); US record: No renewal found

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