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Captain Calamity · Beat 90 · permalink

Ship

26:12–26:49 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; 1 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 26:1826:18Frame at 26:2426:24Frame at 26:4226:42Frame at 26:4626:46

Play from 26:12 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 54 · shots 232–236. 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
  • man in light-colored short-sleeve shirt, dark captain's hat, and light pants; appears young, medium build visible, audible
  • Bill (named at t:26:12): older man with gray hair, wearing dark suit, white shirt, black tie, and white hat; seated in wooden chair visible, audible
  • shirtless man wearing white sailor's hat and dark pants, sitting on deck with ropes visible
Seen happening
  • Two men sit on a ship's deck and talk. [frame:1]
  • The man in the suit speaks while seated. [frame:2]
  • A shirtless man in a sailor's hat sits on the deck. [frame:3]
  • The man in the captain's hat leans over the railing toward the man in the suit. [frame:4]
Also said
“Security. For visitors, Captain. Pretty lady this time.” 26:38 · “But, Bill, listen. Ah, you're a great disappointment to me, Joplin. Great disappointment.” 26:43
Seen
ship's railing [frame:1], wooden chair [frame:2], sailor's hat [frame:3], ropes [frame:3]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense negotiation with undercurrents of betrayal; themes: negotiation, betrayal, pirate economics; style notes: medium shots on deck, bright daylight, static framing emphasizing dialogue

Two men converse on a ship's deck; one in a captain's hat and light shirt, the other in a suit and white hat. The dialogue references fumigation, doubloons, and security for visitors, with one man expressing disappointment in the other.

“Don't you think we could go below and have a little conversation, sort of private-like? We're fumigating below to keep out the rats.” 26:12 · “But you'll have to have stores, Bill. You know, you can have anything we've got.” 26:12 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 26:18 (passage 26:12–26:49); US record: No renewal found

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