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Three Came Home · Beat 13 · permalink

Living room

14:49–16:03 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 14:5114:51Frame at 14:5914:59Frame at 15:2915:29Frame at 15:5915:59

Play from 14:49 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 7 · shots 32–35. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
living_room (living room, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in military uniform, Asian, mid-30s, average build visible, audible
  • man in light shirt, back to camera, Western, mid-40s visible
  • man in dark coat, side profile, Western, 50s visible
  • Mrs. Keese (named at t:15:43): woman in light dress, Western, 30s, sitting on couch visible
  • Mrs. Agnes Lothankees (named at t:15:46): woman in patterned dress, Western, 30s, sitting on couch visible
  • child, Western, young, sitting on couch visible
Seen happening
  • A man in uniform confronts two men in a room. [frame:1]
  • More uniformed men enter the room, surrounding the civilians. [frame:2]
  • Women and children are lying on the floor in a large hall. [frame:3]
  • Two women and a child sit on a couch, one woman reaching out. [frame:4]
Also said
“Mrs. Keese?” 15:43 · “Mrs. Agnes Lothankees? Yes.” 15:46
Seen
military uniform [frame:1], dark coat [frame:2], couch [frame:4], window with blinds [frame:4]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and confrontational; themes: authority, confinement, civilian displacement; style notes: black-and-white, medium close-ups for dialogue, wide shot for group scene, high contrast lighting

A man in a military uniform confronts two other men in a room, asserting authority. In another scene, women and children are seen resting on the floor in a large hall, and two women are shown in a close interaction on a couch.

“Never use that voice to me again.” 14:50 · “We are in charge here now, the Nipponese army.” 15:08 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 14:51 (passage 14:49–16:03); US record: No renewal found

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