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Captain Calamity · Beat 74 · permalink

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20:41–21:03 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; 1 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 20:4220:42Frame at 20:5320:53

Play from 20:41 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 44 · shots 199–200. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
other (other, interior) evidence: frame:1, frame:2
People
  • man lying on back, dark hair, looking upward visible
  • group of men wearing hats, some in sailor-style caps, gathered around a table visible
Seen happening
  • A man is lying on his back looking upward. [frame:1]
  • A group of men gather around a table, reacting to news of gold. [frame:2]
Also said
“Big iron-bound kiss. Rotten and bursting with it.” 20:42 · “Jewels and boils. Scattered among dead men's bones.” 20:42
Seen
hats [frame:2], table [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and anticipatory; themes: treasure, discovery, group reaction; style notes: low-key lighting, tight framing on faces, period costume with hats suggesting 1930s adventure genre

A man lies on his back looking upward. A group of men in hats gather around a table, reacting to news of gold found in a cave. No names are spoken, and no specific location is identified beyond the interior setting.

“Gold? Did you hear? Those guys found gold.” 20:42 · “Oh, gold. Pirate gold, Mike? Gold. Gold and gold. In the cave.” 20:42 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 20:42 (passage 20:41–21:03); US record: No renewal found

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