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Captain Calamity · Beat 67 · permalink

Restaurant

18:46–19:02 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; 2 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 18:5018:50Frame at 18:5418:54Frame at 18:5818:58

Play from 18:46 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 39 · shots 180–182. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
restaurant (restaurant, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • older man, gray hair, wearing a light shirt and dark tie visible, audible
  • Bill (named at t:18:49): younger man, dark hair, wearing a dark cap and work shirt over a white undershirt visible, audible
Seen happening
  • Two men sit at a table with food and drink, talking. [frame:1]
  • The younger man is shown in close-up against a snowy background. [frame:3]
Also said
“Register? She was a bullseye.” 18:49 · “I can feel a bell ringing inside.” 18:49
Seen
{'item': 'wine bottle', 'frame': 1}, {'item': 'glasses', 'frame': 1}, {'item': 'plates with food', 'frame': 1}, {'item': 'cap', 'frame': 3}
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: light-hearted and conversational; themes: romantic attraction, male camaraderie, reaction to a glance; style notes: medium shots and close-ups with studio lighting; abrupt cut to snowy background suggests a fantasy or memory sequence

Two men sit at a table with food and drink, one in a shirt and tie, the other in a cap and work shirt. The man in the cap speaks about a woman's look, and the scene cuts to a close-up of him against a snowy background.

“What's the matter, Bill? Did you see the way she looked at me?” 18:49 · “Yeah, it seemed to register.” 18:49 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 18:50 (passage 18:46–19:02); US record: No renewal found

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