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Three Came Home · Beat 55 · permalink

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32:15–32:26 Registered 1950

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 2 quotes checked against the transcript; 1 name 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 32:2132:21

Play from 32:15 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 36 · shots 111–111. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
other (other) evidence: frame:1, t:32:17
People
  • not visible audible
Seen happening
  • A handwritten note is visible on screen. [frame:1]
Seen
handwritten note [frame:1]
On screen
DARLING, WILL YOU TRY TO MEET ME TONIGHT AT 10 O'CLOCK AT THE TALL PALM? OTHERS HAVE DONE IT AND I DO SO WANT TO SEE YOU. TRY TO COME, IF ONLY FOR ONE MINUTE.
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and pleading; themes: secret meeting, apology, longing; style notes: close-up on handwritten note, high contrast black-and-white, static frame

A handwritten note is shown, asking someone to meet at the Tall Palm at 10 o'clock. The transcript includes two apologies spoken off-screen.

“I'm sorry.” 32:17 · “I'm sorry.” 32:20 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 32:21 (passage 32:15–32:26); US record: No renewal found

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