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Pot O’ Gold · Beat 21 · permalink

Jail

29:09–29:52 Registered 1941

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 2 quotes checked against the transcript; 3 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 29:2329:23Frame at 29:4429:44

Play from 29:09 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 14 · shots 27–28. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
jail (jail, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in dark suit, dancing, mid-20s to 40s visible
  • man in white turban and loose white outfit, standing, mid-30s to 50s visible
  • man in dark suit, tie, and fedora, seated, mid-30s to 50s visible, audible
Seen happening
  • A man in a dark suit dances in a jail cell area. [frame:1]
  • A man in a suit and hat sits and speaks. [frame:2]
Seen
jail bars, fedora hat, suit and tie
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: lighthearted and theatrical; themes: performance, confinement, musical interlude; style notes: black-and-white, medium shots, studio lighting, staged performance

Two men are shown in a jail setting; one dances while another in a turban watches. A third man in a suit and hat is seated and speaking. The transcript includes a spoken verse about someone being woken and blowing a tune.

“Come on.” 29:13 · “He took you out of slumber, he took you out of bed. He took you into line and then he goes somewhere and he hangs his head. But still he blows and blows and blows, blows and blows, blows and blows. He wakes you with this crazy tune that goes to bed and sleeps to noon.” 29:31 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 29:23 (passage 29:09–29:52); US record: No renewal found

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