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Captain Calamity · Beat 96 · permalink

Ship

29:06–29:31 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; 2 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 29:1229:12Frame at 29:2529:25

Play from 29:06 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 55 · shots 250–251. 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
  • younger man, wearing a light blue shirt, dark trousers, and a dark cap; standing visible, audible
  • older man, wearing a dark suit and white shirt; seated visible, audible
Seen happening
  • The younger man stands on the deck of a ship, smiling at the older man. [frame:1]
  • The younger man, now wearing a cap, leans toward the older man as they talk. [frame:2]
Also said
“But the poor child would only be that much worse off.” 29:12 · “Why don't you marry her yourself?” 29:12
Seen
ship rigging [frame:1], ocean [frame:1], cap [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and darkly comic; themes: romantic rivalry, moral dilemma, sarcasm; style notes: medium shots on a sunlit deck; natural lighting; conversational framing

Two men converse on a ship's deck; one suggests poisoning a rival suitor, then proposes marriage to the woman in question. The setting is clearly a vessel at sea, with rigging and ocean visible.

“Did you know she was thinking of marrying that fuzzy old lobscouse?” 29:12 · “If you're a doctor, you could poison the old buzzard.” 29:12 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 29:12 (passage 29:06–29:31); US record: No renewal found

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