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Three Came Home · Beat 92 · permalink

Prisoner camp

53:35–54:00 Registered 1950

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Frame at 53:4053:40Frame at 53:5253:52

Play from 53:35 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 59 · shots 195–196. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
prisoner camp (camp, exterior) evidence: t:53:38
People
  • wearing a conical straw hat and light-colored shirt, back to camera visible
  • partially visible, wearing a hat, standing near food visible
  • hand visible, serving food visible
Seen happening
  • A person serves food from a pot into a bowl. [frame:2]
Seen
conical straw hat, metal bowl with food, pot being served from, cup with dark liquid
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: grim and somber; themes: imprisonment, isolation, survival; style notes: black-and-white, medium close-ups on individuals and objects, natural lighting suggesting outdoor setting

The scene depicts a prisoner camp in Kuching, with a person wearing a conical hat and others gathered around a meal. The transcript identifies the location as a segregated women’s camp in the East Indies and mentions a shocking duration of ten years.

“This was it. Kuching. The great dump heap of prisoners in the East Indies. And this was the women's camp, isolated and segregated from the many men's camps that were scattered among the hills around us.” 53:38 · “Four! Well, as ten years! That was the first thing we heard at Kuching.” 53:55 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 53:40 (passage 53:35–54:00); US record: No renewal found

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