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Three Came Home · Beat 103 · permalink

Jail

58:01–1:03:01 Registered 1950

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Not yet checked. The automatic checks have not run on this beat. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:00:301:00:30Frame at 1:03:001:03:00

Play from 58:01 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 69 · shots 225–226. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
(jail, exterior) evidence: frame:2
People
  • woman in light-colored shirt, visible in frame 1 visible
  • Betty (named at t:59:27): woman in light-colored shirt, visible in frame 2 walking outside visible
  • men behind barbed wire, visible in frame 2 visible, audible
  • Mrs. Keyes (named at t:58:28): woman mentioned in transcript as Mrs. Keyes mentioned
  • Mrs. Gulliver (named at t:59:01): woman mentioned as Mrs. Gulliver mentioned
Seen happening
  • A woman is seen smiling in a dim interior. [frame:1]
  • A woman walks outside near a barbed-wire fence where men are gathered. [frame:2]
Also said
“It's the Australians. Oh, cut it out, fellas.” 60:31 · “I wouldn't interest you, really. I'm much too old, much too tough for you.” 61:05
Seen
barbed-wire fence, light-colored shirts, lipstick [t:60:54], garbage [t:59:01], fish head [t:59:44], potato top [t:59:13]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and darkly humorous; themes: survival, gender roles under duress, prison camp dynamics; style notes: high-contrast black-and-white, tight framing on faces, wide shot showing spatial separation by fence

Two women are seen in a dim interior, then one walks outside near a barbed-wire fence where men are calling out to her. The transcript reveals a tense interaction involving Australian prisoners, food scavenging, and flirtatious but dangerous exchanges across the fence.

“You are really too kind, Mrs. Keyes. Not at all. That'll be all now. Thank you.” 58:28 · “I beat Mrs. Gulliver to the garbage tonight. Wonderful.” 59:01 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 Three Came Home (1950) at 1:00:30 (passage 58:01–1:03:01); US record: No renewal found

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