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Pot O’ Gold · Beat 34 · permalink

Living room

52:23–53:23 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; 3 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 52:5352:53

Play from 52:23 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 25 · shots 44–44. 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:1
People
  • Uncle Charlie (named at t:52:31): older man, white hair, wearing a suit, appears distressed visible, audible
  • Professor Height (named at t:52:31): younger man, dark hair, wearing a robe or coat, standing close to p1 visible, audible
  • man in dark suit and hat, standing to the side, observing visible, audible
Seen happening
  • Professor Height examines Uncle Charlie's face while p3 watches. [frame:1]
Also said
“That's why I'm here, Mr. Haskell, to work on your nerves. Relax, please.” 52:48 · “What music? That creepy music. Don't you hear it? Can you see what I mean?” 53:04
Seen
robe or coat [frame:1], hat [frame:1], suit [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and anxious; themes: mental health, family concern, medical intervention; style notes: close framing on faces, high contrast lighting, black and white film

An older man is being examined by a younger man while a third man observes; the older man complains about hearing music and decides to leave. The younger man introduces himself as Professor Height and claims to be there to help with nerves.

“Well, I'll tell you, Uncle Charlie, I got worried about you. I couldn't sleep, so I called in a specialist. Now, this is Professor Height. This is my Uncle Charlie.” 52:31 · “Nox, it's I don't need a doctor. I eat my own health foods. It's my nerves that are cracking.” 52:42 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 52:53 (passage 52:23–53:23); US record: No renewal found

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