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Three Came Home · Beat 116 · permalink

Private office

1:11:31–1:12:02 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; 4 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:11:351:11:35Frame at 1:11:401:11:40Frame at 1:11:521:11:52

Play from 1:11:31 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 75 · shots 253–255. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
private_office (private office, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • Mrs. Keys (named at t:71:35): woman, mid-adult, wearing patterned blouse, seated visible, audible
  • man, mid-adult, wearing military uniform and cap, standing left visible
  • Kelo (named at t:71:41): man, mid-adult, wearing military uniform, standing center visible, audible
  • man, mid-adult, wearing military uniform, standing right visible
Seen happening
  • Three men in uniform stand around a seated woman in an office. [frame:1]
  • The woman looks down, appearing somber. [frame:2]
  • A man and the woman are shown in close-up, the woman holding a cigarette. [frame:3]
Also said
“Thank you, Kelo.” 71:41 · “You may go now.” 71:42
Seen
{'item': 'wooden desk with papers and typewriter', 'frame': 1}, {'item': 'wicker chair', 'frame': 2}, {'item': 'cigarette', 'frame': 3}, {'item': 'military uniforms', 'frame': 1}
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and unresolved; themes: authority, apology, implied threat, military hierarchy; style notes: static medium shots, high-contrast black-and-white lighting, formal framing emphasizing authority

A woman sits in a room with three men in uniform; one apologizes on behalf of another. The woman thanks a man named Kelo and is dismissed. A later exchange suggests the situation is not resolved.

“I believe what you say, Mrs. Keys, and I am very sorry it happened.” 71:35 · “I apologize to you for him.” 71:38 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 1:11:35 (passage 1:11:31–1:12:02); US record: No renewal found

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