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Three Came Home · Beat 8 · permalink

Private office

8:08–9:11 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 8:118:11Frame at 8:158:15Frame at 8:178:17Frame at 8:458:45

Play from 8:08 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech; cut falls inside a spoken line: no pause was available without exceeding the length cap. Sequence 4 · shots 20–23. 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:2
People
  • woman, mid-30s, wearing a light-colored dress with a dark belt, hair styled in a 1940s updo visible, audible
  • Stan (named at t:8:34): man, mid-40s, wearing a light-colored shirt and tie, mustache, seated at a desk visible, audible
  • Georgie (named at t:8:28): child, not visible, mentioned as 'Georgie' mentioned
  • Harry (named at t:8:57): man, not visible, mentioned as 'Harry' mentioned
Seen happening
  • A woman is packing clothes into a suitcase while on the phone. [frame:1]
  • A man in a white shirt is seated at a desk, speaking on the phone. [frame:2]
  • The woman is standing, holding a phone receiver to her ear, looking concerned. [frame:3]
  • The man is shown in close-up, listening intently on the phone. [frame:4]
Also said
“I'm Stan.” 8:34 · “Harry, listen.” 8:57
Seen
telephone, suitcase, desk, lamp, picture frame, curtains, round table
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and anxious; themes: separation, duty, anxiety during crisis; style notes: black-and-white, medium close-ups, high-contrast lighting, static camera

A man and a woman are on separate phone calls in different rooms, discussing an impending arrival and giving instructions for children to be taken to a government house. The woman is seen packing while speaking, and the man is seated at a desk, both appearing concerned.

“No, but we have a guard on the point to let us know. No need to worry too much yet. It may all be very simple and routine. We're going down to the dock to show them that we're not armed.” 8:19 · “You're to take Georgie straight to government house.” 8:28 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 8:11 (passage 8:08–9:11); US record: No renewal found

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