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Three Came Home · Beat 96 · permalink

Private office

55:40–56:09 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 55:4255:42Frame at 55:4855:48Frame at 55:5755:57Frame at 56:0456:04

Play from 55:40 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 63 · shots 205–209. 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
People
  • woman, mid-adult, wearing a patterned dress, dark hair styled up visible
  • child, young, wearing shorts and a shirt, dark hair visible
  • man in uniform, mid-adult, seated at desk, dark hair visible
  • Lieutenant Nakata (named at t:56:00): man in uniform, mid-adult, standing, wearing cap, dark hair visible
Seen happening
  • A woman and a child enter an office. [frame:1]
  • The woman and child walk past a uniformed man standing near a doorway. [frame:2]
  • The woman stands facing a man in uniform, with the child behind her. [frame:3]
  • The woman faces Lieutenant Nakata, who is standing and speaking to her. [frame:4]
Seen
desk, filing cabinet, map on wall, typewriter, uniforms
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and authoritative; themes: authority, obedience, motherhood under duress; style notes: static medium shots, high-contrast black-and-white lighting, formal framing emphasizing power dynamics

A woman and a child enter an office where a man in uniform is seated at a desk; another uniformed man stands nearby. The woman is instructed to bathe, put on a dress, and report to Lieutenant Nakata's office with her child.

“You please bathe and put on a dress and report to Lieutenant Nakata's office with your child as quickly as possible.” 56:00 · “Quickly as possible.” 56:06 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 55:42 (passage 55:40–56:09); US record: No renewal found

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