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Pot O’ Gold · Beat 27 · permalink

Dining room

37:10–38:11 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; 0 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 37:4137:41

Play from 37:10 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 18 · shots 36–36. 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
People
  • woman, dark hair in a bun, wearing a patterned dress, standing visible
  • man, seated, light-colored shirt, looking down at table visible
  • man, seated, dark suit, looking up at the woman visible, audible
  • Willie (named at t:37:52): unseen, referred to as 'Willie' audible, mentioned
Seen happening
  • A woman stands behind a seated man at a table while another man looks on. [frame:1]
Also said
“Well, I think I'll be all right if I can go out and get some fresh air. Willie, you'd better go with him.” 37:52 · “Will he show him his room? Come on. Willie does everything around here except eat.” 38:02
Seen
{'item': 'dining table with glasses and bottles', 'frame': 1}, {'item': 'wall sconce light', 'frame': 1}, {'item': 'wooden cabinet or hutch', 'frame': 1}
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: mildly tense, with a sense of polite concern; themes: social etiquette under stress, care for the unwell in a group setting, informal hierarchy (Willie as helper); style notes: medium shot, static framing, studio lighting, classic 1940s film composition

A woman stands behind a seated man at a table while another man looks on; dialogue suggests someone is unwell and wishes to retire to a room. A character named Willie is instructed to accompany the unwell person, and the woman offers casual hospitality.

“There you are. Tobados? Thank you.” 37:12 · “Would you excuse me? I don't feel very well. Oh, it's probably too much excitement. I'll be all right.” 37:44 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 37:41 (passage 37:10–38:11); US record: No renewal found

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