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Three Came Home · Beat 225 · permalink

Road

1:38:52–1:39:00 Registered 1950

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 1 quote checked against the transcript; 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:38:531:38:53Frame at 1:38:551:38:55Frame at 1:38:571:38:57Frame at 1:38:591:38:59

Play from 1:38:52 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 155 · shots 430–433. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
road (road, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • woman with light hair in a ponytail, wearing a light-colored blouse visible
  • child with curly hair, wearing a light dress visible
  • man in a short-sleeved uniform shirt and white cap, standing with hands clasped visible
Seen happening
  • A dirt road lined with palm trees and tropical vegetation is shown. [frame:1]
  • A woman looks off-screen toward the road. [frame:2]
  • A man in uniform stands beside a woman and child near a barbed wire fence. [frame:4]
Seen
barbed wire fence, palm trees, dirt road, uniform cap
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense anticipation; themes: arrival, encounter, confinement; style notes: black-and-white, medium shots, natural lighting, outdoor framing with depth from foreground fence to distant road

A woman and a child stand near a barbed wire fence as a man in uniform approaches; the setting is a dirt road lined with tropical vegetation. A voice exclaims that someone is coming, and the woman looks toward the road.

“Here comes somebody!” 98:52 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 1:38:53 (passage 1:38:52–1:39:00); US record: No renewal found

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