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Captain Calamity · Beat 58 · permalink

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15:10–15:47 Registered 1936

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 15:2415:24Frame at 15:4215:42

Play from 15:10 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech; cut falls inside a spoken line: no pause was available without exceeding the length cap. Sequence 34 · shots 152–153. 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, dark hair, wearing a white tank top, holding a cloth visible, audible
  • woman, blonde wavy hair, wearing a light-colored robe or dress visible, audible
Also said
“Pockets full of gold, hands full of Spanish coins. Gold, Sam. Gold! Don't you realize?” 15:39 · “Gold!” 15:45
Seen
white cloth or towel, light-colored robe or dress, white tank top
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and confrontational; themes: treasure, suspicion, secret; style notes: close two-shot, dim lighting, theatrical framing

Two people argue in a dimly lit interior; one claims to have seen Captain Bill Jones with pirate treasure. The transcript includes dialogue about gold and a warning not to intrude on secrets.

“It's private. Ooh, never would I intrude upon two lover secrets.” 15:11 · “That big lunkhead, Captain Bill Jones, has found a pirate treasure. Gold, Sam, he's gone out aboard his boat. A pirate treasure. Are you drunk so early?” 15:25 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 15:24 (passage 15:10–15:47); US record: No renewal found

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