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Private office

43:23–45:24 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 44:2344:23

Play from 43:23 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 44 · shots 142–142. 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
  • Mrs. Keith (named at t:45:11): woman, mid-adult, wearing a shiny collared jacket, standing visible, audible
  • Captain (named at t:44:55): man, mid-adult, wearing dark uniform, seated, back to camera visible, audible
  • Cunin (named at t:44:25): unseen, voice heard audible
  • Sister Rose (named at t:43:57): unseen, voice heard audible
  • Georgie (named at t:43:55): unseen, voice heard audible
  • Agnes (named at t:44:09): unseen, voice heard audible
  • Mrs. Summers (named at t:45:06): unseen, voice heard audible
Seen happening
  • A woman stands before a seated man in uniform, pleading for medicine. [frame:1]
Also said
“Mrs. Keith.” 45:11 · “Can't you send me to the doctor for some now? It's not far and they're very ill.” 45:23
Seen
hanging lamp, desk, uniform, shiny jacket
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and desperate; themes: authority vs. compassion, medical crisis, female agency under constraint; style notes: high-contrast black and white, tight two-shot, dramatic lighting from above, minimal set

A woman pleads with a guard captain for quinine to treat a sick child, claiming it is for one of the children; the captain refuses immediate aid, citing protocol. Another woman, Mrs. Keith, is mentioned as also ill and unable to come.

“What to one? I want some Quinine, Captain. Quinine, one of the children is ill.” 44:55 · “We'll see it after tomorrow. But he needs it now, Captain. He's very old.” 45:03 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 44:23 (passage 43:23–45:24); US record: No renewal found

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