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Captain Calamity · Beat 56 · permalink

Private office

14:29–14:48 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 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 14:3614:36Frame at 14:4614:46

Play from 14:29 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 34 · shots 147–148. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
private_office (private office, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • woman, blonde, wearing light-colored dress and earrings, seated visible
  • Bill (named at t:14:42): man, dark hair, wearing dark cap and jacket over white shirt, standing visible, audible
Seen happening
  • The man stands close to the woman, holding her hand. [frame:1]
  • The woman sits alone at a table with a checkered cloth. [frame:2]
Seen
wicker chair [frame:1], checkered tablecloth [frame:2], wooden railing and stone archway [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and transactional; themes: financial desperation, personal appeal, gendered power dynamics; style notes: medium close-up framing, low-key lighting, period costume

A man and a woman interact in a dimly lit interior; the man speaks to the woman, who then sits alone at a table. The dialogue indicates a request for money and a farewell.

“Well, so long. So long, Bill.” 14:42 · “So, here I am, my friend. Badly in need of money. Suggest you get it for me.” 14:47 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 14:36 (passage 14:29–14:48); US record: No renewal found

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