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Captain Calamity · Beat 95 · permalink

Vehicle interior

28:10–29:06 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 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 28:3528:35Frame at 29:0329:03

Play from 28:10 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 55 · shots 248–249. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
vehicle_interior (vehicle interior, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in dark captain's hat and blue shirt, young, lean visible, audible
  • older man in light suit, white fedora, bow tie, portly visible, audible
  • woman in light dress and white hat, young visible
Seen happening
  • Two men stand facing each other on a boat, smiling, with a hillside behind them. [frame:1]
  • A woman joins the two men on the boat; one man holds a pistol. [frame:2]
Mentioned
  • The group prepares to leave the city after the offer is rejected. [t:28:42]
Also said
“You know where the devil lives? Of course I do. Well, go there, then. Bless you. Come on. Ned, Ned, come here, quick. We're leaving the city.” 28:42 · “I hoped you'd accept his offer, but I'm kind of glad you didn't.” 28:42
Seen
pistol, captain's hat, white fedora, bow tie
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and confrontational; themes: deception, romantic conflict, betrayal, departure; style notes: medium shots, natural daylight, outdoor setting with visible sea and hills, costumes suggest 1930s

Two men argue on a boat near a hillside; one offers money to deceive a woman about an investment, which the other refuses. A woman joins them as they prepare to leave the city.

“Yeah. Can you blame me for loving her? Loving her? You? Yes.” 28:13 · “She wants me to invest a thousand dollars in your next treasure voyage. The devil she does. Yes. If I do, she'll marry me.” 28:20 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 28:35 (passage 28:10–29:06); US record: No renewal found

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