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Field

49:50–50:15 Registered 1950

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 3 quotes checked against the transcript; 4 names 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 49:5649:56Frame at 50:0850:08

Play from 49:50 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 48 · shots 177–178. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
field (field, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • Justin (named at t:49:59): woman, mid-adult, wearing light-colored blouse and dark skirt, standing with child visible, audible
  • child, young, holding a stuffed animal, wearing dark shorts and light shirt visible, audible
  • man, adult, wearing light shirt and trousers, standing in foreground with back to camera visible
  • group of adults and children, some waving, in background visible
Seen happening
  • The woman and child are visible in a close interaction, surrounded by others. [frame:2]
Also said
“Stop it! What? Give me... Give me a little bit of a smile. It's not much of a way to say goodbye, is it? It won't be for long, darling. We'll see each other again soon. Goodbye, son. Goodbye, darling. Be very careful, darling. I love you, darling.” 50:08
Seen
stuffed animal [frame:2], group of people waving [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: emotional and somber; themes: separation, farewell, parent-child bond; style notes: black-and-white, medium shots, natural outdoor lighting, group composition with focus on central figures

A woman and a child are separated from a group of people in an outdoor setting; the woman speaks to the child before they part. The transcript includes dialogue about eggs, a farewell, and expressions of love.

“I had eggs when I was sick, Daddy.” 49:51 · “Eggs? Why, you little monkey. No wonder you're growing up living off the side of the land.” 49:53 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 49:56 (passage 49:50–50:15); US record: No renewal found

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