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Pot O’ Gold · Beat 39 · permalink

Nightclub

1:02:01–1:06:37 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; 6 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 1:04:191:04:19

Play from 1:02:01 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 30 · shots 49–49. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
nightclub (other, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in light suit and wide-brimmed hat, dancing visible, audible
  • Molly (named at t:65:17): woman in sequined dress, dancing visible, audible
  • man in dark suit, standing in background visible
  • Paul (named at t:65:52): man in light suit, speaking off-screen audible
  • C.J. (named at t:65:52): man speaking off-screen audible
  • Haskell (named at t:66:02): man speaking off-screen audible
Seen happening
  • A man and a woman dance in a crowded venue. [frame:1]
Also said
“Oh, Paul. You made quite an impression. Well, it'll be a different story when I tell your uncle about it. Believe me, C.J. won't pay for your philandering.” 65:52 · “A thousand dollars a week! That's a lie!” 66:34
Seen
sequined dress, wide-brimmed hat, light suit, dark suit
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and dramatic; themes: deception, romantic conflict, financial stakes; style notes: medium shot, black-and-white, studio lighting, period costumes

A man and a woman are dancing in a crowded venue while dialogue reveals tension over a sponsorship deal and personal revelations. The scene ends with an announcement of a cash giveaway, met with disbelief.

“Molly, Molly, you were wonderful. Here, you better put this on before you catch cold.” 65:17 · “I've been double-crossed. Get me a drink. Get me a drink.” 65:29 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 1:04:19 (passage 1:02:01–1:06:37); US record: No renewal found

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