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Three Came Home · Beat 23 · permalink

Bedroom

21:53–22:14 Registered 1950

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Not yet checked. The automatic checks have not run on this beat. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 21:5421:54Frame at 22:0122:01Frame at 22:0822:08Frame at 22:1222:12

Play from 21:53 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 11 · shots 57–60. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
bedroom (bedroom, interior) evidence: frame:2
People
  • child, short dark hair, wearing striped pajamas visible, audible
  • Mommy (named at t:22:04): adult woman, curly hair, lying in bed, wearing light-colored nightwear visible, audible
  • Daddy (named at t:22:04): adult man, short hair, wearing light-colored shirt, leaning over bed visible, audible
Seen happening
  • Adult man leans over the bed toward the child and woman. [frame:2]
  • Child looks up with a serious expression. [frame:3]
  • Child touches the woman's face while she smiles with eyes closed. [frame:4]
Also said
“For a while, it'll have to be just us. That's all.” 22:00 · “You and Daddy and me. That's all right, Mommy. I didn't want anybody else anyway.” 22:04
Seen
bed, lamp, brick wall, pillow
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: intimate and tender; themes: family, comfort, childhood innocence; style notes: close-up framing, high-contrast black-and-white lighting, static camera focusing on facial expressions

A child and two adults are in a bedroom; the child speaks about Christmas while lying in bed with an adult, and another adult leans over them. The dialogue indicates a small family unit will be together for the holiday.

“But next Christmas, maybe?” 21:53 · “I'm afraid not, darling.” 21:57 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 21:54 (passage 21:53–22:14); US record: No renewal found

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