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Captain Calamity · Beat 73 · permalink

Beat 73

20:33–20:41 Registered 1936

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 4 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 20:3420:34Frame at 20:3620:36Frame at 20:4020:40Frame at 20:4120:41

Play from 20:33 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 43 · shots 194–198. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

People
  • man with wide eyes and open mouth, earpiece visible, dark hair visible
  • man with furrowed brow, gritted teeth, light-colored hair visible
  • man with dark hair, neutral expression, looking slightly off-camera visible
  • man wearing a dark hat, face in shadow, looking upward visible
Seen
earpiece, hat
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and dramatic; themes: intensity, suspense; style notes: extreme close-ups, high-contrast lighting, grainy film texture

Four close-up shots show different men's faces with intense expressions; one wears a hat. No dialogue or environmental context is provided in the frames or transcript for this beat.

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 20:34 (passage 20:33–20:41); US record: No renewal found

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