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Captain Calamity · Beat 54 · permalink

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13:51–14:14 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. 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 3 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 13:5313:53Frame at 13:5913:59Frame at 14:0414:04Frame at 14:0914:09

Play from 13:51 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 33 · shots 138–141. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
other (other, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • Thatcher (named at t:13:52): man, young adult, wearing a dark sailor's cap and a blue shirt over a white undershirt visible, audible
  • woman, young adult, blonde curled hair, wearing a light-colored dress and dangling earrings visible, audible
Seen happening
  • A man and a woman are seated close together, talking about gold and treasure. [frame:1]
  • The man smiles while speaking. [frame:2]
  • The woman speaks with an expressive face. [frame:3]
  • The man looks away thoughtfully. [frame:4]
Also said
“Well, it's hard to say just how much this stuff is worth, but...” 14:05 · “The people in the town got the idea I had a couple of kegs aboard my ship, huh?” 14:09
Seen
sailor's cap, wicker chair, dangling earrings
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: conversational, slightly conspiratorial; themes: treasure, rumor, secrecy; style notes: close-up shots, soft studio lighting, static camera, period costume

A man in a sailor's cap and a woman in a light dress are shown in close-up, discussing treasure and gold. The man is asked about the value of what he found, and the woman mentions townspeople's assumptions about his ship.

“Gold, I'm sure it's real gold. Thatcher, you know how these buried treasure tales have been going through the islands all these years?” 13:52 · “It's about time somebody found some, don't you think? How much did you get, Bill?” 14:00 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 13:53 (passage 13:51–14:14); US record: No renewal found

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