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Three Came Home · Beat 105 · permalink

Interior

1:03:26–1:04:15 Registered 1950

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 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:03:271:03:27Frame at 1:03:291:03:29Frame at 1:03:511:03:51Frame at 1:04:131:04:13

Play from 1:03:26 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 229–232. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
interior (other, interior) evidence: frame:1, frame:3
People
  • woman in light-colored dress, mid-adult, visible screaming with arms raised visible
  • woman with styled hair, wearing dark jacket over light blouse, seated at table visible
  • man in dark uniform, pushing cart outdoors visible
  • man in dark uniform, walking behind cart visible
  • man, partially visible in frame:2, dark clothing visible
Seen happening
  • A woman screams with her arms raised. [frame:1]
  • A woman sits at a table, handling small objects. [frame:3]
  • Two men push a cart along a dirt path outdoors. [frame:4]
Also said
“And besides, we're missionaries.” 63:57 · “I wouldn't mind being converted tonight.” 64:00
Seen
cart [frame:4], table [frame:3], small objects on table [frame:3], palm trees [frame:4]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and confrontational; themes: conflict, survival, gender roles; style notes: high-contrast black and white, tight framing on faces, abrupt cuts between interior and exterior

A woman screams while another sits at a table in a dim room; men push a cart outdoors. Dialogue reveals the men are bachelors and missionaries, dismissing a woman's concern for their safety.

“Look, fellas, aren't you married? Haven't you got wives back home?” 63:39 · “No, strictly bachelors, both of us.” 63:41 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 1:03:27 (passage 1:03:26–1:04:15); US record: No renewal found

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