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Three Came Home · Beat 87 · permalink

Ship

52:16–52:39 Registered 1950

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Frame at 52:2552:25Frame at 52:3652:36

Play from 52:16 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 54 · shots 188–189. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
ship (ship, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • woman in light-colored dress, holding a child, seated on deck visible
  • man in loose, dark shirt and pants, walking, back to camera visible
  • child held by p1 visible
  • multiple people lying or sitting on deck, indistinct visible
Seen happening
  • A woman holds a child while seated among others on a ship's deck. [frame:1]
  • A man walks past the group on the deck. [frame:2]
Also said
“He is you and I that must live.” 52:23 · “These ten days at sea, bound for we knew not where, were, I believe, the worst.” 52:38
Seen
ship deck [frame:1], life preserver [frame:1], pipe or mast [frame:1], loose clothing [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: somber and intimate; themes: survival, maternal love, uncertainty; style notes: tight framing on individuals, high-contrast black and white, static camera

A group of people, including a woman holding a child, are crowded on a ship's deck. A man in loose clothing walks among them. The transcript includes emotional dialogue about love, survival, and an uncertain journey.

“Take care of that.” 52:17 · “I love him because he is you. He is ours.” 52:19 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 52:25 (passage 52:16–52:39); US record: No renewal found

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