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Pot O’ Gold · Beat 23 · permalink

Living room

32:55–34:57 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; 6 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 33:5633:56

Play from 32:55 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 16 · shots 30–30. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
living_room (living room, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in dark suit, tie, pocket square, slicked hair visible
  • man in lighter suit, patterned tie, open collar visible
  • Molly (named at t:32:57): unseen, but audible as speaker audible
  • Jimmy (named at t:32:59): unseen, but audible as speaker audible
  • Ma (named at t:33:36): unseen, but audible as speaker audible
  • Willie (named at t:33:43): unseen, but audible as speaker audible
Mentioned
  • Jimmy is greeted by others off-screen as he returns. [t:32:57]
Also said
“They pawned their instruments to bail you out.” 33:14 · “Hail McCorkle, hail McCorkle, we'll proudly sing thy praise.” 33:59
Seen
suit [frame:1], tie [frame:1], pocket square [frame:1], framed picture on wall [frame:1], wall sconce [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: lighthearted and celebratory; themes: reunion, fraternal bonding, humor through exaggeration; style notes: medium two-shot, studio lighting, formal attire, static framing

Two men in suits stand indoors; one is greeted by others off-screen as 'Jimmy' and is welcomed back after being mistakenly locked up. The group sings a celebratory song and prepares to take a photo, with someone directing 'action' and others seated at a table.

“Hey, here's Jim! Molly!” 32:57 · “What happened and where have you been? Oh, I got locked up again by mistake.” 33:04 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 33:56 (passage 32:55–34:57); US record: No renewal found

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