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Three Came Home · Beat 175 · permalink

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1:30:26–1:30:45 Registered 1950

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 3 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 1:30:311:30:31Frame at 1:30:371:30:37Frame at 1:30:411:30:41Frame at 1:30:451:30:45

Play from 1:30:26 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 121 · shots 357–360. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
other (other, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in light-colored military-style uniform and pith helmet, middle-aged, average build visible, audible
  • child, thin, wearing a light-colored hat and patterned shirt, appears malnourished visible
  • child, thin, wearing a light-colored shirt, barefoot, appears malnourished visible
  • child, thin, wearing a dark dress, appears malnourished visible
Seen happening
  • The man stands facing three children under a wooden structure. [frame:1]
  • The man gestures toward the children while speaking. [frame:2]
  • The man looks directly at the camera with a serious expression. [frame:3]
  • The children stand together, looking at the man. [frame:4]
Also said
“How would your children like to come with me to my house in Cochin and have a little party with the last two each? Now? Why not?” 90:38
Seen
pith helmet [frame:1], military-style uniform [frame:1], wooden structure [frame:1], worn clothing on children [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and somber; themes: childhood hardship, authority and vulnerability, offer of relief; style notes: black-and-white, medium shots, natural lighting, focus on facial expressions and body language

A man in uniform speaks to three children outdoors under a wooden structure; he offers them food and an invitation to his house in Cochin. The children appear thin and are dressed in simple, worn clothes.

“Are you really so hungry?” 90:29 · “Yes, sir, but I'm not as something as I was, though. I am. I'm not.” 90:31 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 1:30:31 (passage 1:30:26–1:30:45); US record: No renewal found

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