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Captain Calamity · Beat 62 · permalink

Private office

16:55–17:15 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; 0 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 16:5816:58Frame at 17:0117:01Frame at 17:0717:07Frame at 17:1417:14

Play from 16:55 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 35 · shots 162–165. 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
  • Doc (named at t:17:14): older man, grey hair, wearing a light shirt and dark tie visible, audible
  • Bill (named at t:17:00): younger man, dark hair, wearing a dark cap and green shirt visible, audible
  • woman, dark bobbed hair, wearing a floral strapless dress visible
Seen happening
  • The woman is seen standing in a doorway. [frame:2]
  • Doc smiles at Bill after hearing his story. [frame:4]
Also said
“Where have you been, Bill? What have you been doing? See this thing? It's a doubloon.” 17:14 · “Found it. Found it? Yep, at the bottom of a lagoon.” 17:14
Seen
bottle [frame:1], glass [frame:1], doubloon [t:17:14]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: casual and conversational, with a hint of skepticism; themes: friendship, storytelling, skepticism; style notes: medium close-ups, static camera, warm indoor lighting, period costume

Two men sit at a table, one older and one younger in a cap, discussing a doubloon found in a lagoon. A woman in a floral dress is briefly visible in a doorway before the camera returns to the men.

“Here's to your appetite, Bill. It's never failed me yet. How's yours? You look fit.” 17:00 · “Oh, I'm about the same. I exist on this mostly. You can't teach a besotted old stomach new tricks.” 17:00 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 16:58 (passage 16:55–17:15); US record: No renewal found

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