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Three Came Home · Beat 144 · permalink

Private office

1:21:23–1:21:45 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 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:21:251:21:25Frame at 1:21:321:21:32Frame at 1:21:381:21:38Frame at 1:21:421:21:42

Play from 1:21:23 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 97 · shots 305–308. 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:2
People
  • woman, mid-adult, curly hair, wearing a light-colored patterned blouse visible
  • man, adult, wearing military uniform and cap, standing visible
  • man, adult, wearing military uniform and cap, seated at desk visible
  • man, adult, wearing military uniform and cap, standing near wall visible
Seen happening
  • A woman sits facing forward, looking slightly to her right. [frame:1]
  • A woman sits with her back to the camera, facing a seated man at a desk, with two standing men in uniform nearby. [frame:2]
  • The woman turns her head slightly, looking toward the camera. [frame:3]
  • A man in uniform points at a wall-mounted panel with multiple switches or levers. [frame:4]
Seen
map on wall [frame:2], wooden desk [frame:2], wooden chair [frame:2], wall-mounted panel with switches or levers [frame:4]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: authority, confinement, decision-making under pressure; style notes: static medium shots, high-contrast black and white, studio lighting, formal framing

A woman in a patterned blouse sits in a room with military personnel; a man in uniform points at a wall panel. The transcript includes a refusal and an announcement of departure.

“No.” 81:27 · “I'm going to go.” 81:33 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 1:21:25 (passage 1:21:23–1:21:45); US record: No renewal found

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