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Pot O’ Gold · Beat 35 · permalink

Living room

53:23–55:04 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; 5 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 54:1354:13

Play from 53:23 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech; cut falls inside a spoken line: no pause was available without exceeding the length cap. Sequence 26 · shots 45–45. 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:53:26): older man, white hair, wearing dark suit visible, audible
  • Jimmy (named at t:53:47): unseen, referred to as 'Jimmy' audible, mentioned
  • Mr. Hassel (named at t:53:26): unseen, referred to as 'Mr. Hassel' audible, mentioned
  • Parks (named at t:54:09): unseen, referred to as 'Parks' mentioned
  • Doctor (named at t:54:51): unseen, referred to as 'Doctor' mentioned
Seen happening
  • Uncle Charlie points to the furnace and insists others listen to the music. [frame:1]
Also said
“Girls dancing on the lawn. Where? There.” 54:55 · “These paper dolls dancing on lawn. Paper dolls. You're right, Jimmy. I'm in terrible shape. My nerves are all gone. Doctor, what do you think I'd better do? Mr. Haskell, give your nerves a good long rest. Get out of town. I'll do it.” 54:55
Seen
radio, lamp, curtains, furniture
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and unsettling; themes: mental instability, perception vs reality, isolation; style notes: static medium shot, high-contrast lighting, confined interior space

An older man in a dark suit interacts with a radio in a dimly lit room while speaking with others off-screen about hearing music and bugles. He later claims to see paper dolls dancing on a lawn, prompting concern from others who suggest he rest.

“It's not the radio. Do you still hear it, Uncle Charlie? Yes, it's still playing. Mr. Hassel, tell me. Where does this music seem to be coming from? I don't know, but just a moment. I'll tell you.” 53:26 · “Here it is! It's coming from the furnace. Music in first. Well, listen yourself. Jimmy, please tell them it's New Year's.” 53:56 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 54:13 (passage 53:23–55:04); US record: No renewal found

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