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Pot O’ Gold · Beat 18 · permalink

Courtroom

25:06–26:12 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; 4 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 25:3425:34Frame at 26:0826:08

Play from 25:06 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 12 · shots 23–24. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
courtroom (courtroom, interior) evidence: frame:1, frame:2
People
  • woman, mid-adult, wearing dark dress, standing visible, audible
  • Mike (named at t:25:21): man, mid-adult, wearing suit, seated visible, audible
  • man, mid-adult, wearing suit, behind bars visible
  • man, mid-adult, wearing suit, standing near bars visible
Seen happening
  • A woman stands in front of a seated man in a courtroom. [frame:1]
  • A man is seen behind bars while another man stands nearby. [frame:2]
Also said
“I'm not pushing you. Oh, take it easy. Wait on you. Don't you push me. Here comes double new mordia.” 25:26 · “McCorkle, very funny.” 25:39
Seen
bars [frame:2], window [frame:2], desk [frame:1], chairs [frame:1, frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and confrontational; themes: justice, conflict, courtroom drama; style notes: static framing, high-contrast lighting, medium shots emphasizing dialogue and character positioning

A courtroom scene unfolds where a woman addresses the judge about a payment, followed by a confrontation involving a tomato-throwing incident. A man is seen behind bars as others move around the courtroom.

“We have $200. Is that enough?” 25:07 · “I have it, Your Honor. The clerk will accept it.” 25:14 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 25:34 (passage 25:06–26:12); US record: No renewal found

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