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Captain Calamity · Beat 97 · permalink

Ship

29:31–30:05 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 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 29:3329:33Frame at 29:3729:37Frame at 29:5129:51Frame at 30:0130:01

Play from 29:31 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 55 · shots 252–256. 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
  • older man, grey hair, wearing a dark suit and white shirt visible, audible
  • younger man, wearing a light blue shirt and a dark captain's cap visible, audible
Seen happening
  • An older man in a suit speaks while looking off-camera. [frame:1]
  • The younger man in the captain's cap turns to face the older man, initiating a conversation. [frame:2]
  • The two men continue their conversation on the ship's deck. [frame:3]
  • The older man speaks again, looking concerned. [frame:4]
Also said
“Bill, she's licked. If anything should happen to me, her only way out would be to the... to the altar with old man Warren.” 29:43 · “I'll carry her off the sea before I'll let her do that. Make a pirate queen of her, eh?” 29:43
Seen
ship's rigging [frame:1], captain's cap [frame:2], ocean background [frame:2], dark suit [frame:4]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and dramatic; themes: romantic conflict, pirate adventure, rescue and defiance; style notes: medium close-ups on characters, bright outdoor lighting, clear focus on facial expressions and dialogue

Two men converse on a ship's deck; one, in a captain's cap, speaks with the other, an older man in a suit. The dialogue reveals a plot involving a woman, a trader named Mackenzie, and a threat of marriage to 'old man Warren,' which the speaker vows to prevent by making her a 'pirate queen.'

“Well, they had some sort of misunderstanding. He must have been a dumb fool. Who is he? Well, a young trader by the name of Mackenzie.” 29:43 · “He's the best, but he needs a-going over giving up a gal like that.” 29:43 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 29:33 (passage 29:31–30:05); US record: No renewal found

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