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34:34–34:50 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 34:3534:35Frame at 34:3834:38Frame at 34:4434:44

Play from 34:34 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 38 · shots 124–126. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
(other, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • middle-aged man, heavyset, wearing a dark uniform shirt and cap visible, audible
  • Betty (named at t:34:38): woman, middle-aged, curly hair, wearing light-colored pajama-style top, seated visible
  • woman, younger, hair pulled back, wearing light-colored shirt, standing visible
Seen happening
  • A man in uniform stands facing a woman, speaking. [frame:1]
  • The seated woman looks toward the man while another woman leans in behind her. [frame:2]
  • The man touches the standing woman's head while speaking to her. [frame:3]
Also said
“Sergeant doesn't understand one word of English, do you, Repulsive?” 34:41 · “Now, you cute little bucket of swirl.” 34:47
Seen
military uniform [frame:1], beds or cots [frame:1], pajama-style top [frame:2], light-colored shirt [frame:3]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and confrontational; themes: power dynamics, humiliation, wartime captivity; style notes: black-and-white, medium close-ups, high-contrast lighting emphasizing facial expressions

A man in uniform speaks to two women in a crowded, dimly lit interior space; one woman is seated while the other stands near the man. The transcript includes taunting dialogue directed at the man, who is referred to as 'Sergeant' and 'Repulsive'.

“If it isn't old frog face.” 34:36 · “Betty.” 34:38 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 34:35 (passage 34:34–34:50); US record: No renewal found

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