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Three Came Home · Beat 171 · permalink

Private office

1:28:16–1:29:45 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 1:29:001:29:00

Play from 1:28:16 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 118 · shots 351–351. 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
  • Colonel (named at t:88:44): man, mid-30s to 50s, wearing a light-colored collared shirt, seated at a desk visible, audible
  • Mrs. Kitzel (named at t:88:53): woman, mid-30s to 50s, wearing a headscarf and coat, seated across from the man visible, audible
Seen happening
  • A woman and a man sit at a table with tea service. [frame:1]
Also said
“Whatever the rest is, There's no difference in our hearts about our children.” 88:48 · “The tea is over.” 89:36
Seen
tea set, typewriter, desk, shuttered window
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: somber and intimate; themes: grief, shared parenthood, formal farewell; style notes: medium two-shot, static framing, high-contrast black-and-white lighting emphasizing faces and table

A woman and a man sit at a table with tea service; she speaks of never seeing her children again and thanks him for listening. He acknowledges her sentiment and they part after she notes the tea is over.

“Think that I will never see them again.” 88:27 · “I think I do, Colonel.” 88:44 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 1:29:00 (passage 1:28:16–1:29:45); US record: No renewal found

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