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Captain Calamity · Beat 71 · permalink

Restaurant

19:37–20:12 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; 3 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 19:4319:43Frame at 20:0020:00

Play from 19:37 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 41 · shots 190–191. 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, light shirt, dark tie, seated at table visible, audible
  • Captain Bill (named at t:20:00): younger man, dark cap, blue shirt, seated at table visible, audible
  • woman, blue dress, seated at table visible, audible
Also said
“Captain Bill, I'm so glad for you. About what? Why, the treasure, of course.” 20:00 · “Who told you about the treasure? Why, everybody's talking about it. It's all over town. All over town? Oh, Bill.” 20:00
Seen
table with checkered cloth, wine bottle, plates and silverware, glassware, dark cap
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and conspiratorial; themes: suspicion, treasure, gossip, social interaction; style notes: medium close-up shots, studio lighting, static framing, period costume

Two men and a woman sit at a table with food and drink; one man is addressed as Captain Bill and congratulated on a treasure. The conversation reveals suspicion toward someone named Joblin and mentions the treasure being widely known in town.

“Joblin's a dirty crook. Well, I'm almost sure of that.” 19:39 · “truth out break every ribbon is chest one by one but you can't do that bill what's the matter job lines the matter always has been the cheating devil I never mind job and go finish your breakfast and let me congratulate you” 19:44 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 19:43 (passage 19:37–20:12); US record: No renewal found

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