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Pot O’ Gold · Beat 4 · permalink

Street

9:27–9:49 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 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 9:329:32Frame at 9:419:41Frame at 9:489:48

Play from 9:27 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 4 · shots 3–5. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
street (street, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • older man, bald, wearing a dark suit and tie visible
  • woman, older, wearing a dark dress and white apron visible
  • man, middle-aged, wearing a suit and tie visible
  • man, visible from behind, wearing a light-colored shirt visible
Seen happening
  • A man in a suit stands on a balcony railing, shouting down at a crowd. [frame:1]
  • The man on the balcony continues to shout, mouth open. [frame:2]
  • A crowd on the street looks up at the man on the balcony. [frame:3]
Also said
“You and who else? The police!” 9:38 · “I'll have that gang of noisy loafers thrown in jail for disturbing the peace. Disturbing the peace, are we?” 9:41
Seen
balcony railing [frame:1], apron [frame:3], suit and tie [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: confrontational; themes: authority vs. crowd, public disturbance, urban conflict; style notes: high-angle shot from balcony, medium shot of crowd, black-and-white, dramatic lighting on the man's face

A man in a suit stands on a balcony railing, shouting down at a crowd below. The crowd, including a woman in an apron and a man in a suit, looks up at him as he threatens to have them arrested for disturbing the peace.

“What's the matter? Stop that!” 9:31 · “Blast it, Bedlam, or I'll have it stopped. Oh, you will, eh?” 9:34 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 9:32 (passage 9:27–9:49); US record: No renewal found

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