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Pot O’ Gold · Beat 43 · permalink

Theatre

1:17:28–1:20:38 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; 8 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 1:19:031:19:03

Play from 1:17:28 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 34 · shots 53–53. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
(theatre, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in suit, mid-30s, average build visible
  • man in light jacket, mid-30s, average build visible
  • man in dark suit, mid-40s, heavier build visible
  • woman in light dress, 20s-30s, slim visible
  • Horace (named at t:79:17): man, voice only, referred to as Horace audible
  • Daniel Boone (named at t:78:24): man, voice only, referred to as Daniel Boone audible
  • Larry Cotton (named at t:79:21): man, voice only, referred to as Larry Cotton audible
  • Mr. Haskell (named at t:80:10): man, voice only, referred to as Mr. Haskell audible
Seen happening
  • People gather around a large spinning wheel on a stage. [frame:1]
Also said
“Hello, my little man. May I use your telephone? Hey, Ma! Daniel Boone wants to borrow our telephone!” 78:24 · “And now, ladies and gentlemen, the wheel is all ready. All ready for the first spin to spin to determine the volume number. Larry Cotton, take it away. And there she goes, ladies and gentlemen. This time after that first big volume number. Yes, sir, and we want that volume to have your name in it, ladies and gentlemen. And furthermore, I'm not going to give away one penny. Okay. Okay.” 79:21
Seen
spinning wheel [frame:1], curtains [frame:1], microphone [frame:1], telephone [t:78:24], stage [frame:1], suit [frame:1], light dress [frame:1], jacket [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: chaotic and comedic; themes: gambling, miscommunication, comedy of errors, radio show parody; style notes: black-and-white, stage-bound, medium shots, theatrical lighting

A chaotic scene unfolds around a large spinning wheel on a stage, with people shouting, arguing over a phone, and preparing for a prize draw. A man named Horace is involved in the wheel's operation, and a page number is revealed as 66.

“All right, there's a wheel. Now how are we going to borrow it?” 77:29 · “Okay, what's with the snooki? Get going. All right, so time this year requires ten cents a day. Who wouldn't get a dime for a condition in the next one? Snooki! Oh, where have you been, my sugar plum? Why did you leave me in battle? I guess you've been the way you did. Madam!” 77:39 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 1:19:03 (passage 1:17:28–1:20:38); US record: No renewal found

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