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Pot O’ Gold · Beat 32 · permalink

Living room

46:31–51:17 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; 4 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 2 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 46:3646:36Frame at 48:5948:59

Play from 46:31 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 23 · shots 41–42. 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:2
People
  • man in suit, looking upward, outdoors visible
  • man in light sweater and dark trousers, indoors visible
  • Jimmy (named at t:47:35): man in suit and hat, indoors visible
  • man in suit, indoors visible
Seen happening
  • A man in a suit looks upward outdoors. [frame:1]
  • Three men stand in a room with patterned wallpaper and furniture. [frame:2]
Also said
“We're getting rid of Uncle Charlie.” 50:08 · “The band. He doesn't like it. No, he certainly does not.” 50:42
Seen
suit, hat, patterned wallpaper, furniture
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and conspiratorial; themes: family conflict, secrets and identity, musical ambition vs. authority; style notes: black-and-white, medium shots, interior lighting focused on characters, minimal background detail

A man in a suit is seen outdoors at night, then three men are shown indoors in a room with patterned wallpaper and furniture. Dialogue reveals a character named Jimmy is being urged to leave due to a conflict involving his uncle, C.J. Haskell, and a band.

“Run, Jimmy, run for your life!” 47:35 · “Soon as Molly finds out who I am, she'll kick me out in the alley.” 49:28 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 46:36 (passage 46:31–51:17); US record: No renewal found

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