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Pot O’ Gold · Beat 3 · permalink

Private office

8:38–9:27 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; 1 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 9:039:03

Play from 8:38 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 3 · shots 2–2. 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
  • older man, balding, wearing dark suit, seated at desk visible, audible
  • woman, dark hair in bun, wearing dark dress or suit, seated across desk visible
Seen happening
  • Man and woman are seated at a desk in a wood-paneled room. [frame:1]
Also said
“That's why they've ignored all of my protests. Well, I understand it's a new band just organized. Who wants a new band?” 9:01 · “Hey! Hey! You! Hey! Hey, you! Hey! Somebody! Hey! Hey! Hey!” 9:17
Seen
wood-paneled walls, large windows with curtains, desk with papers and lamp, chairs
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: frustrated and agitated; themes: conflict over noise, social annoyance, class or neighborly tension; style notes: static medium shot, high-contrast black-and-white, formal framing with symmetrical desk setup, period office decor

A man and a woman are seated in a wood-paneled room with large windows; the man appears agitated while speaking about a noisy band. The transcript reveals complaints about 'Tom Toms' and 'jungle screeching' and mentions the McCordons hosting the band to annoy him.

“How can a man transact any business with that going on day after day? Tom Tom.” 8:44 · “The McCordons took that band in their house just to annoy me.” 8:57 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 9:03 (passage 8:38–9:27); US record: No renewal found

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