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Three Came Home · Beat 95 · permalink

Camp

55:16–55:40 Registered 1950

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 3 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 55:2855:28

Play from 55:16 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 62 · shots 204–204. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
camp (camp, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in light uniform, hat, carrying rifle visible
  • man in light uniform, hat, bending near pole visible
  • unspecified, speaking audible
Seen happening
  • Two uniformed men are present outdoors near a flagpole and thatched structure. [frame:1]
Also said
“with a stubborn purpose.” 55:26 · “To avoid punishments and beatings, the ladies should presume themselves to endeavour with passive behaviour, not negative. Lieutenant McCartan. The Lieutenant must have learnt his English at Harvard. Mrs. Key.” 55:32
Seen
rifle [frame:1], flagpole with tattered flag [frame:1], thatched-roof structure [frame:1], palm trees [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and survival-focused; themes: survival, military authority, passive resistance; style notes: black-and-white, wide shot, natural lighting, outdoor setting with tropical vegetation

A scene set outdoors under palm trees shows two uniformed men, one carrying a rifle, near a thatched structure and a flagpole. A voice-over speaks of survival and avoiding punishment, mentioning 'Lieutenant McCartan' and 'Mrs. Key'.

“So in the course of time...” 55:22 · “Life was reduced to one simple, simple,” 55:23 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 55:28 (passage 55:16–55:40); US record: No renewal found

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