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Captain Calamity · Beat 98 · permalink

Ship

30:05–30:23 Registered 1936

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 1 quote checked against the transcript; 4 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 30:0930:09Frame at 30:1730:17Frame at 30:2130:21Frame at 30:2230:22

Play from 30:05 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 257–260. 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 sailor's cap and blue work shirt, young to middle-aged, medium build visible
  • older man with gray hair, wearing a dark suit and white shirt, holding a pipe visible, audible
  • man in dark beret and light shirt, seated at a table visible
  • man in blue work clothes, back to camera, serving food visible
Seen happening
  • The man in the suit continues speaking while holding a pipe. [frame:2]
  • A man in a beret sits at a table on deck as another man in work clothes approaches. [frame:3]
  • A man in work clothes serves food to the man in the beret at the table. [frame:4]
Seen
sailor's cap, pipe, beret, table with food, ship's wheel
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and conversational; themes: conflict over money, shipboard life, class contrast; style notes: medium shots on deck, natural daylight, clear focus on character interaction

Two men are on a ship's deck, one in a sailor's cap and work clothes, the other in a suit, discussing money. A third man in a beret joins them at a table with food, and another man in work clothes serves the meal.

“or I'll break his blasted neck. You can't say, Bill. Where's the money to come from? Oh, yeah, that's it. The money. Skip.” 30:12 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 30:09 (passage 30:05–30:23); US record: No renewal found

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