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Three Came Home · Beat 9 · permalink

Private office

9:11–10:29 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 9:269:26Frame at 10:0510:05

Play from 9:11 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 4 · shots 24–25. 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, frame:2
People
  • man, middle-aged, wearing a white coat, seated then standing visible
Seen happening
  • A man in a white coat sits at a desk and handles an object. [frame:1]
  • The man stands at a cabinet, facing away from the camera. [frame:2]
Also said
“When time comes they take me away to the hills.” 9:41 · “They're coming around the point.” 10:08
Seen
desk [frame:1], cabinet [frame:2], white coat [frame:1, frame:2], lamp [frame:1], picture on wall [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and anticipatory; themes: waiting, impending danger, isolation; style notes: black-and-white, medium shots, dim lighting with focused illumination on the subject, static camera

A man in a white coat is seen in a dimly lit room, first seated at a desk handling an object, then standing at a cabinet. The transcript includes dialogue about waiting, being taken away, and boats approaching, but no names are spoken.

“Did there come anything? No, not yet, but any minute now, I guess.” 9:31 · “What you think they do, Missy?” 9:34 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 9:26 (passage 9:11–10:29); US record: No renewal found

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