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Three Came Home · Beat 12 · permalink

Private office

12:52–14:49 Registered 1950

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 5 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 13:5013:50Frame at 14:4814:48

Play from 12:52 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 7 · shots 30–31. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
(private office, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in light suit, middle-aged, standing center, facing others visible
  • man in dark military uniform with cap, standing left, facing p1 visible
  • man in dark leather coat, standing right, facing p1 visible
  • man in light suit, standing behind p1, observing visible
  • man in military uniform, partially visible behind p3 visible
Also said
“You have probably committed 40 acts of war in the past 24 hours.” 14:21 · “I'm asking for nothing that I'm not entitled to.” 14:43
Seen
wooden door, window with curtains, military uniform with cap, leather coat, light suit with tie
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and confrontational; themes: civilian vs. military status, obedience to orders, rules of war; style notes: static medium shots, high-contrast black-and-white lighting, formal framing emphasizing power dynamics

A group of men, including a Japanese officer and a civilian official, are in a tense confrontation inside a room. The civilian admits to following orders to destroy machinery, bridges, and other assets, while the officer challenges his claim to civilian status under the rules of war.

“Those were my orders, and I obeyed them.” 13:46 · “I had my orders. You had your orders from a general in Singapore and they were military orders.” 14:14 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 13:50 (passage 12:52–14:49); US record: No renewal found

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