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Captain Calamity · Beat 76 · permalink

Bar

21:22–21:36 Registered 1936

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 3 quotes checked against the transcript; 4 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 21:2921:29

Play from 21:22 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 45 · shots 202–202. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
bar (bar, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in blue shirt, mid-30s, average build, speaking with open mouth visible, audible
  • man with cigarette, wearing dark vest, bruised face, mid-30s visible
  • man in dark cap, older, leaning forward visible
  • man in light cap, partially visible behind p2 visible
Seen happening
  • A man in a blue shirt speaks while others lean in to listen. [frame:1]
Also said
“All right. Well, it was this way, huh?” 21:24
Seen
cigarette [frame:1], dark cap [frame:1], light cap [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense anticipation; themes: storytelling under pressure, group dynamics, oral narrative; style notes: tight framing on faces, low-key lighting, high contrast shadows

A man in a blue shirt speaks animatedly while others listen closely in a dimly lit interior; one man smokes a cigarette. The transcript includes prompts for him to continue speaking.

“Tell us more about it. Go ahead.” 21:24 · “Come on, tell us about it. Come on.” 21:24 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 21:29 (passage 21:22–21:36); US record: No renewal found

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