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Captain Calamity · Beat 78 · permalink

Restaurant

21:41–22:21 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; 5 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 21:4621:46Frame at 22:0022:00Frame at 22:1522:15

Play from 21:41 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 47 · shots 204–206. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
(restaurant, interior) evidence: frame:3
People
  • woman, blonde, wearing a black-and-white striped dress with puffed sleeves, standing, holding a belt visible
  • young woman, dark hair with white flowers, seated, looking up visible
  • man, gray hair, wearing light shirt and dark tie, seated at table with bottle and food visible
  • woman, dark hair, wearing dark top and hat, seated at table visible
  • woman, light brown hair, wearing light blue dress with bow, seated at table visible
Seen happening
  • A woman in a striped dress stands and scolds two seated women. [frame:1]
  • The standing woman leans toward a seated woman with flowers in her hair. [frame:2]
  • Three people sit at a table with food and drink while a man reacts to a conversation. [frame:3]
Also said
“What a sensation. Up to your knees, eh? So you see, the story's all a myth. There is no treasure.” 22:05
Seen
striped dress, belt, white flowers in hair, checkered tablecloth, bottle, food and drink on table, hat
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and dismissive; themes: skepticism, workplace discipline, myth vs reality; style notes: medium close-ups and medium shots, studio lighting, period costumes, static framing

A woman in a striped dress scolds two younger women at a table with food and drink, while a man at the same table reacts to talk of treasure. The dialogue suggests the treasure story is a myth.

“What's the matter with you girls? Haven't you got anything better to do than to talk about treasure? There's customers to wait on. Come on, get busy. And I'm up to Samir.” 21:42 · “You know Captain Bill's mate. What did he tell you about it? Oh, mate, tell me. The foreign hedgehog report is so full of gold, you're walking it up to your knees.” 21:54 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 21:46 (passage 21:41–22:21); US record: No renewal found

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