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Captain Calamity · Beat 92 · permalink

Ship

26:52–27:37 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; 5 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 26:5626:56Frame at 27:1427:14Frame at 27:1927:19Frame at 27:3527:35

Play from 26:52 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 55 · shots 238–243. 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
  • Captain Bill (named at t:26:54): man in sailor uniform and cap, mid-30s, average build visible, audible
  • Miss Lewis (named at t:26:57): woman with dark hair, wearing light blouse, 20s-30s, slim visible, audible
  • Mr. Warren (named at t:27:12): man in light suit, straw hat, bow tie, 50s, portly visible, audible
  • man in dark suit and fedora, 40s, average build visible
  • man in straw hat, light shirt, 30s, average build visible
Seen happening
  • Miss Lewis and Mr. Warren are in a small boat approaching a larger ship. [frame:1]
  • Captain Bill and Miss Lewis speak face-to-face on the ship's deck. [frame:2]
  • Mr. Warren is shown in the small boat, holding a pipe. [frame:3]
  • Mr. Warren is helped aboard the ship by Captain Bill. [frame:4]
Also said
“You? I? I thought you said there were no good-looking women under McCullough, Bill. Well, supremacal. Oh, you better help Mr. Warren aboard. He's no sailor. Without old Goonie in the boat, who is he? He's one of the richest planters on the island. What's he want? He wants to talk to you. Be nice to him, Bill. Come aboard, Mr. Warren. It's about time somebody thought that.” 27:12 · “Careful, will you? You don't need to tear my arm out of its socket.” 27:37
Seen
small rowboat [frame:1], ship with railings and masts [frame:1], pipe [frame:3], sailor uniform [frame:2], straw hat [frame:3]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: light and conversational; themes: social class, reunion, nautical setting; style notes: medium shots, natural daylight, static camera, period costume

A woman and a man in a suit board a ship from a small boat, greeted by a sailor. The woman speaks to the sailor, recalling a past meeting, while another man in a straw hat is helped aboard.

“Hello, Captain Bill.” 26:54 · “May we come aboard? Well, hello, Miss Lewis. I'm glad to see you.” 26:57 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 26:56 (passage 26:52–27:37); US record: No renewal found

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