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Captain Calamity · Beat 83 · permalink

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23:02–23:36 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; 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 23:0823:08Frame at 23:1823:18Frame at 23:3023:30

Play from 23:02 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 50 · shots 212–214. 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
People
  • woman, light brown curled hair, wearing a light blue dress with a black bow at the neck visible, audible
  • older man, gray hair, wearing a white shirt and dark tie, holding a small object visible
  • Bill (named at t:23:12): man, dark hair, wearing a light shirt and dark tie, with a gray jacket over one shoulder visible
Seen happening
  • The woman and the older man stand together, smiling at each other. [frame:2]
  • The woman touches Bill's shoulder while looking at him. [frame:3]
Also said
“I wish I could help him.” 23:12 · “You silly child. I should think you'd have trouble enough without... Well, here comes one of your troubles now, the bumptious old fool. Shh! Have you no respect for wealth? None whatever.” 23:12
Seen
black bow tie [frame:1], small dark object held by older man [frame:2], gray jacket [frame:3]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: dramatic and slightly tense, with interpersonal friction implied by dialogue and physical touch; themes: romantic admiration, class tension, personal loyalty; style notes: medium close-ups, static framing, studio lighting with soft shadows, period costume design

A woman in a blue dress speaks about a man named Bill while interacting with two men, one of whom she touches on the shoulder. The setting appears to be an interior space with plain walls and minimal decoration.

“Bill shows up best in storms and fights.” 23:12 · “The minute I saw him, I knew he was my Captain Bill.” 23:12 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 23:08 (passage 23:02–23:36); US record: No renewal found

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