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Captain Calamity · Beat 88 · permalink

Ship

25:18–25:38 Registered 1936

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 25:1925:19Frame at 25:2125:21Frame at 25:3125:31

Play from 25:18 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 53 · shots 228–230. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
ship (ship, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • shirtless, dark curly hair, wearing brown trousers visible
  • bald, wearing light-colored shirt, looking through a porthole visible
Seen happening
  • A shirtless man bends over a bucket near water. [frame:1]
  • The man pulls a rope from the bucket. [frame:2]
  • A bald man looks through a round porthole. [frame:3]
Seen
bucket, rope, porthole, ship's mast or rigging
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense or curious; themes: maritime activity, observation, manual labor; style notes: medium close-ups, natural lighting, static framing

A shirtless man works with a bucket and rope near water, then a bald man peers through a porthole. The setting appears to be on a ship near a rocky shore.

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 25:19 (passage 25:18–25:38); US record: No renewal found

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