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1:25:31–1:25:43 Registered 1950

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 1 name checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:25:371:25:37

Play from 1:25:31 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 113 · shots 342–342. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
other (other, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • hands holding paper, no face or body visible visible
Seen happening
  • A typed letter dated 18th Aug. '45 is shown, announcing Japan's unconditional surrender to Allied prisoners of war. [frame:1]
Seen
typed letter, hands
On screen
To: All Allied Prisoners of War From: C.O., 9th Australian Div. AIF At last the Allies have completely defeated the Japanese and the Emperor has accepted unconditional surrender. It will be difficult to get aid to you immediately but rest assured we will be there as soon as possible. G. F. Wooten Major General
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: solemn, official; themes: war, surrender, communication, prisoners of war; style notes: close-up shot, static frame, high contrast black-and-white, focused on document text

A close-up shows a typed letter dated 18th Aug. '45 addressed to Allied prisoners of war, announcing Japan's unconditional surrender. The letter is signed by G. F. Wooten, Major General, and states that rescue will be difficult but will happen as soon as possible.

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 1:25:37 (passage 1:25:31–1:25:43); US record: No renewal found

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