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Pot O’ Gold · Beat 26 · permalink

Dining room

36:45–37:10 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; 7 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 36:4836:48Frame at 37:0137:01

Play from 36:45 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 18 · shots 34–35. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
dining_room (restaurant, interior) evidence: frame:1, frame:2
People
  • woman, dark hair, patterned dress with bow at waist, smiling visible
  • man, dark hair, suit and tie, standing, smiling visible
  • man, dark hair, dark jacket, white scarf or cravat, mouth open as if speaking visible
  • man, seated, suit, reaching across table visible
  • man, seated, suit, smiling at table visible
  • woman, back to camera, wearing apron, standing near table visible
  • man, seated, suit, visible in background visible
Seen happening
  • Three people stand together smiling in a dining room. [frame:1]
  • A group is seated at a table with food and drinks; one person reaches across the table. [frame:2]
Seen
dining table [frame:2], glasses and bottles [frame:2], painting on wall [frame:1, frame:2], wall sconces [frame:2], apron [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: convivial; themes: social inclusion, food as celebration, group ritual; style notes: medium close-up and wide shot in a well-lit interior; formal attire and table setting suggest a celebratory gathering

Three people stand together smiling in a dining room; a wider shot shows a group seated at a table with food and drinks. A speaker refers to someone becoming a member of the 'McCarklin class' and mentions Irish stew.

“Your homes be home.” 36:47 · “- Say, that was all right. You can now consider yourself a full-fetched member of the McCarklin class. - Oh, do I make a speech? - If you do, he'll starve to death. Hey, look at this Irish stew.” 36:58 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 36:48 (passage 36:45–37:10); US record: No renewal found

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