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Pot O’ Gold · Beat 16 · permalink

Courtroom

21:59–23:30 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; 3 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 22:4522:45

Play from 21:59 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 10 · shots 21–21. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
courtroom (courtroom, interior) evidence: t:23:13
People
  • man in suit, mid-30s, average build visible, audible
  • Molly McCorkle (named at t:22:05): woman in dark dress, mid-30s, average build visible, audible
  • police officer in uniform, mid-40s, sturdy build visible, audible
Seen happening
  • A man and woman stand facing each other while a police officer stands nearby. [frame:1]
Also said
“Hold everything, Judge with me right there. Smalley, where are you? Come on, hurry up the case and start it. Order. Order in the courtroom.” 23:13 · “Mary McCorkle, sit down.” 23:22
Seen
police uniform, suit, dark dress, warrant
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and procedural; themes: legal procedure, confrontation, authority; style notes: medium shot, static framing, studio lighting, formal attire suggests courtroom drama

A man in a suit and a woman in a dress stand facing each other while a police officer looks on; dialogue indicates a warrant is being served and a courtroom scene is about to begin. The transcript includes exchanges about keeping quiet, a warrant for assault and battery, and a judge calling for order.

“Molly McCorkle, will you never learn to keep your big mouth shut?” 22:05 · “It's a warrant for assault and battery. Old man Haskell swore it out.” 22:27 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 22:45 (passage 21:59–23:30); US record: No renewal found

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