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Pot O’ Gold · Beat 1 · permalink

Shop

0:00–6:56 Registered 1941

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 5 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 3:283:28

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Evidence and details

Starts here: start of film. Sequence 1 · shots 0–0. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
(shop, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • Jimmy (named at t:1:17): man, mid-adult, wearing suit, standing near piano visible, audible
  • Mary (named at t:1:17): girl, young, seated at piano, wearing dress visible, audible
  • Uncle Charlie (named at t:3:00): man, older, wearing suit, standing near doorway visible, audible
  • girl, young, seated with trumpet, wearing dress visible
  • man, mid-adult, wearing suit, standing near counter visible, audible
Also said
“I'm talking about big business. Can't you understand?” 4:44 · “Oh, hello, bud. Can I talk to you for a minute?” 6:18
Seen
piano, trumpet, music stand, chairs, bookshelves with records
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and familial; themes: family conflict, generational values, small business vs. big business; style notes: black-and-white, medium shots, studio lighting, static camera

A man named Jimmy runs a music shop where a girl named Mary practices piano and trumpet; his uncle Charlie visits to discuss family business, and a third man delivers bad news about an attachment on the shop. The setting is an interior music store with instruments and a piano.

“Hello, Mr. Simmons. Hello. Hello, Mary. Hello, Mr. Haskell.” 1:17 · “Well, Uncle Charlie, hello. I'm glad to see you. Hello, Jimmy. I'm glad to see you, too. Well, this is quite a surprise. What brings you up in this neck of the woods?” 3:00 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 Pot O’ Gold (1941) at 3:28 (passage 0:00–6:56); US record: No renewal found

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