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Captain Calamity · Beat 99 · permalink

Ship

30:23–30:28 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; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 30:2530:25

Play from 30:23 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 55 · shots 261–261. 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 wearing a sailor's cap and white shirt, smoking a pipe visible
  • bald man wearing a dark work shirt visible
Seen happening
  • A man in a sailor's cap smokes a pipe while another man stands beside him on a ship. [frame:1]
Seen
pipe [frame:1], ship rigging [frame:1], sea [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: curious or surprised; themes: money, shipboard interaction; style notes: medium shot, natural daylight, outdoor ship setting, two characters in frame with sea background

A man in a sailor's cap smokes while another man in a work shirt stands beside him on a ship; the transcript includes a line about twenty dollars. The scene is set on a ship with visible rigging and sea in the background.

“What the devil, what's this? Twenty dollars.” 30:25 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 30:25 (passage 30:23–30:28); US record: No renewal found

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