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Pot O’ Gold · Beat 31 · permalink

Bedroom

40:58–46:31 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 43:4443:44

Play from 40:58 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 22 · shots 40–40. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
bedroom (bedroom, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man, visible in bed under covers, dark hair visible
  • Parks (named at t:41:23): unseen speaker, likely male, based on dialogue audible
  • Mr. James Haskell (named at t:41:34): unseen speaker, likely male, based on dialogue audible
  • Uncle Charlie (named at t:42:51): unseen speaker, likely male, based on dialogue audible
Seen happening
  • A man lies in bed under a large comforter. [frame:1]
Also said
“Do you believe in fairy tales? I do. I know a place where fairy tales come true. Just close your drowsy eyes, my dear, and a genie will appear.” 44:06 · “If you believe that fairy tales come true.” 45:23
Seen
large bed with comforter [frame:1], framed pictures on wall [frame:1], lamp on bedside table [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: calm, domestic, slightly whimsical; themes: domesticity, fairy tale fantasy, family introduction; style notes: static medium shot, soft lighting, classic black-and-white film composition

A man is greeted at a house, introduced as a nephew, and shown to a guest room where he prepares for bed; later, a lullaby about fairy tales is sung. The setting is a bedroom with a large bed and framed pictures on the wall.

“This is my nephew, Mr. James Haskell.” 41:34 · “I'm going to take a hot bath and a hot toddy and go to bed. Good night, Jim.” 43:28 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 43:44 (passage 40:58–46:31); US record: No renewal found

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