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Pot O’ Gold · Beat 14 · permalink

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18:52–21:04 Registered 1941

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; 5 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 19:5819:58

Play from 18:52 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 9 · shots 19–19. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
other (other, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • woman, mid-20s to 30s, wearing a light-colored blouse and dark vest or suspenders, dark hair styled in waves visible, audible
  • man, mid-20s to 40s, dark suit, light shirt, dark tie, holding a phone receiver to his ear visible, audible
  • man, mid-20s to 40s, dark suit, light shirt, standing behind p2, mouth open as if speaking or singing visible
  • man, mid-20s to 40s, dark suit, light shirt, standing to the right of p1, smiling visible
  • man, mid-20s to 40s, dark suit, light shirt, standing behind p1, partially obscured visible
Seen happening
  • A group of people are gathered indoors; one woman gestures while speaking, others react. [frame:1]
Also said
“The Camels Are Coming!” 20:00 · “People play them a song. When it's done all that, they pass the hat. A fascinating piece of Piper Man.” 20:30
Seen
telephone receiver, dark suit, light-colored blouse, dark vest or suspenders
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: lively, slightly chaotic; themes: musical performance, social interaction in a group setting, interruption and apology; style notes: black-and-white, medium shot, crowded framing, high contrast lighting typical of 1940s studio production

A group of people in a crowded interior space react to a phone ringing and a musical performance; one woman speaks while others listen or gesture. The transcript includes dialogue about music and a reference to 'The Camels Are Coming!' and 'Piper Man.'

“I'm sorry, I didn't mean to butt in.” 19:18 · “Can you read music? Sure.” 19:31 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 19:58 (passage 18:52–21:04); US record: No renewal found

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