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Pot O’ Gold · Beat 2 · permalink

Private office

6:56–8:38 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; 2 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 7:477:47

Play from 6:56 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 2 · shots 1–1. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
private_office (private office, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • tall, thin, dark suit, tie, dark hair, standing visible, audible
  • Uncle Charlie (named at t:7:43): older, heavier, dark coat, light-colored hat with dark band, standing visible, audible
Also said
“Unless a miracle happens in the next few days, looks like I'll slide down that rainbow.” 7:45 · “And furthermore, I see no reason for changing the air guns we are now using to puff our rice and other cereal.” 8:09
Seen
door, hat, suit, coat
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: conversational, slightly whimsical; themes: choice, opportunity, radio broadcasting, family legacy; style notes: medium two-shot, studio lighting, static camera, period costumes

Two men converse indoors; one, wearing a hat, speaks of a 'pot of gold' and a radio program, while the other listens. The dialogue references a sheriff, a father, and a decision about staying or leaving.

“You can stay here chasing rainbows or you can come with me. I can show you a real pot of gold that's yours for the taking.” 7:07 · “That's a good idea for my radio program tomorrow night.” 7:14 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 7:47 (passage 6:56–8:38); US record: No renewal found

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