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Three Came Home · Beat 109 · permalink

Camp

1:08:52–1:09:13 Registered 1950

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 2 quotes checked against the transcript; 4 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:09:021:09:02

Play from 1:08:52 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 73 · shots 236–236. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
camp (camp, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • adult, wearing light-colored long robe or dress, standing near children visible
  • group of children, wearing shorts and shirts, standing in line visible
  • men in light uniforms, some carrying rifles, walking in background visible
  • unseen speaker audible
Seen happening
  • Children stand in line while an adult addresses them in a courtyard. [frame:1]
  • Armed men patrol the area near a thatched building. [frame:1]
Seen
thatched-roof building with chimneys [frame:1], palm trees [frame:1], rifles carried by men [frame:1], dusty courtyard [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and reflective; themes: prisoner hierarchy, childhood in captivity, military authority; style notes: wide shot, high-contrast black-and-white, natural daylight, static framing emphasizing authority and confinement

A group of children stands in a line in a dusty courtyard while an adult in light clothing addresses them; armed men patrol nearby. A voice-over reflects on forgetting a prisoner-of-war rule and acknowledges the authority of the armed man.

“In my shock and agitation, I forgot the first of all laws for prisoners of war.” 69:05 · “The man with the gun is always right.” 69:10 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 1:09:02 (passage 1:08:52–1:09:13); US record: No renewal found

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