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Three Came Home · Beat 99 · permalink

Private office

56:20–56:43 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 56:3156:31Frame at 56:4256:42

Play from 56:20 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 66 · shots 214–215. 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
  • Mr. Scales (named at t:56:29): man in military uniform, mid-adult, average build visible, audible
  • woman, mid-adult, wearing patterned dress, standing with child visible, audible
  • child, young, wearing striped shirt, partially visible visible
  • man seated at desk, mid-adult, wearing uniform, visible in background visible
Seen happening
  • A man in uniform greets a woman and child in an office. [frame:1]
  • A hand holds a cigarette pack labeled '20 BATANG'. [frame:2]
Also said
“This is a great pleasure.” 56:33 · “How do you do, Colonel? Well, I'm afraid I'm your jailer again.” 56:34
Seen
cigarette pack [frame:2], maps [frame:1], desk [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and formal; themes: authority, confinement, formal greeting under duress; style notes: static medium shot in black-and-white, high-contrast lighting, studio set with props suggesting military command

A man in uniform greets a woman and a child in an office with maps on the wall; a hand holds a cigarette pack. The man identifies himself as the woman's jailer and mentions command over prison camps.

“Come in, please.” 56:26 · “How do you do, Mr. Scales?” 56:29 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 56:31 (passage 56:20–56:43); US record: No renewal found

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