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Three Came Home · Beat 7 · permalink

Private office

4:27–8:08 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 6:186:18

Play from 4:27 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 3 · shots 19–19. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
private_office (private office, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • Harry (named at t:5:59): woman, dark hair styled in a bun, wearing a light-colored blouse or robe, visible in close-up visible, audible
  • Bill (named at t:5:54): man, partially visible, wearing a light shirt, embracing p1 visible, audible
  • unseen speaker, likely male, voice heard in radio announcement audible
  • unseen speaker, likely male, voice heard in radio announcement audible
Seen happening
  • A man and woman are seen embracing closely in a dimly lit room. [frame:1]
Also said
“I'm scared to death already.” 5:52 · “Newsflash. Newsflash. We interrupt this program to tell you that the Japanese have attacked the American naval base at Pearl Harbor in the Hawaiian Islands.” 6:49
Seen
blouse or robe, shirt
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and intimate; themes: loyalty, fear, wartime uncertainty, personal sacrifice; style notes: close-up framing, high-contrast lighting, black-and-white film stock, static camera

A woman and a man embrace in a dimly lit interior while discussing evacuation, fear, and loyalty amid news of Pearl Harbor and impending Japanese occupation. The scene ends with a request to dial a phone number.

“How'd you like to take a little trip, darling?” 4:49 · “I don't want to go.” 5:03 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 6:18 (passage 4:27–8:08); US record: No renewal found

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