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Three Came Home · Beat 169 · permalink

Private office

1:26:11–1:26:59 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; 2 names 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 1:26:351:26:35

Play from 1:26:11 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 117 · shots 347–347. 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
  • Colonel (named at t:86:55): man in light-colored military uniform, dark hair, medium build visible, audible
  • Mrs. Case (named at t:86:18): woman seated, wearing headscarf and light uniform, mid-adult visible, audible
Seen happening
  • A man in uniform stands beside a seated woman and pours tea. [frame:1]
Also said
“My hometown was bombed last weekend.” 86:49 · “Oh, I'm terribly sorry, Colonel.” 86:55
Seen
teapot [frame:1], teacup [frame:1], wooden shutters [frame:1], framed portrait [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: somber; themes: loss, war, military protocol, grief; style notes: medium shot, static framing, studio lighting, formal composition

A man in uniform speaks with a seated woman in a room with wooden shutters; he reveals his family was killed in a bombing. The woman expresses sympathy and asks if the bombing was in Tokyo.

“How do you do, Mrs. Case? How do you do, Cain?” 86:18 · “I have no more family now. No.” 86:46 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 1:26:35 (passage 1:26:11–1:26:59); US record: No renewal found

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