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Captain Calamity · Beat 89 · permalink

Ship

25:38–26:12 Registered 1936

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 25:5525:55

Play from 25:38 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 54 · shots 231–231. 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
  • Bill (named at t:25:53): older man, wearing dark suit and tie, holding a glass visible, audible
  • Dublin (named at t:26:08): younger man, wearing light shirt, trousers, and hat, reclining in a deck chair visible, audible
Also said
“There's one you missed, Bill. Which one? You, T.” 25:53 · “Good morning, Bill. Hi, Dublin.” 26:08
Seen
deck chairs [frame:1], glass [frame:1], hat [frame:1], boat railing [frame:1], sea [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: casual, conversational; themes: social interaction, travel, character introduction; style notes: medium shot, natural daylight, relaxed posture, outdoor setting

Two men sit on a boat deck; one is identified as Bill, the other as Dublin. The conversation reveals Bill has not met the passengers again and comments on their appearance.

“Have you ever met any of them since? The passengers, I mean. No, and I'm glad of it.” 25:53 · “There wasn't a good-looking gal in the bunch. I looked them all over careful, like the same as I always do.” 25:53 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 25:55 (passage 25:38–26:12); US record: No renewal found

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