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Captain Calamity · Beat 53 · permalink

Bedroom

13:35–13:51 Registered 1936

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 3 quotes checked against the transcript; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 13:3713:37Frame at 13:4113:41Frame at 13:4213:42Frame at 13:4713:47

Play from 13:35 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 32 · shots 134–137. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
bedroom (bedroom, interior) evidence: frame:2
People
  • man wearing a blue and black striped shirt, dark cap, and red patterned neckerchief; medium build, dark hair and mustache visible, audible
  • Monsieur Samson (named at t:13:36): man lying in bed, wearing a white tank top; medium build, dark hair and mustache, partially covered by mosquito netting visible, audible
Seen happening
  • A man in a striped shirt and cap gestures while speaking to someone off-screen. [frame:1]
  • A man in a tank top lies in bed under mosquito netting, looking up. [frame:2]
  • The man in the striped shirt smiles broadly. [frame:3]
  • The man in bed yawns widely while still under the netting. [frame:4]
Also said
“Oh, I thought they had you in the jug over at Sydney. It is a long story, my friend. Move over and I tell you.” 13:43
Seen
mosquito netting [frame:2], bed [frame:2], striped shirt [frame:1], cap [frame:1], neckerchief [frame:1], tank top [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: casual and slightly humorous; themes: reunion, unexpected encounter, casual dialogue; style notes: tight framing on characters, low-key lighting with shadows, suggesting an intimate or confined space; costume and props suggest a nautical or tropical setting

A man in a striped shirt and cap speaks to another man lying in bed under mosquito netting; the dialogue suggests a reunion after a period of separation. The setting appears to be a dimly lit interior, possibly a cabin or small room, with minimal furnishings visible.

“Hey, wake up before you shoot, Monsieur Samson.” 13:36 · “Here.” 13:41 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 13:37 (passage 13:35–13:51); US record: No renewal found

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