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The Snows of Kilimanjaro · Beat 120 · permalink

Camp

33:31–34:24 Registered 1952

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks flagged: time_of_day without evidence. 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 33:5733:57

Play from 33:31 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 86 · shots 192–192. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
(camp, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • older man, balding, wearing light-colored safari shirt and pants, holding a glass visible
  • middle-aged man, dark hair, wearing khaki safari shirt and pants, seated centrally visible
  • younger man, dark hair, wearing light-colored safari shirt and pants, seated right visible
Seen happening
  • Three men sit together at night in a camp setting, engaged in conversation. [frame:1]
Also said
“It's like a dam bursting. Why is it everyone who comes to Africa has to write a book about it?” 34:01 · “One silly beggar even dedicated this to me.” 34:07
Seen
glass, camp chairs, camp table with bottles, tarp or canopy overhead
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and reflective; themes: the psychological impact of wildlife encounters, the compulsion to document African experiences, conflict over ownership and credit; style notes: low-key lighting, tight framing on seated figures, night setting with artificial light sources

Three men in safari attire sit outdoors at night, discussing a recent encounter with an animal and the urge to write about Africa. One man mentions a book dedicated to him, and they argue over who killed a rhino.

“Only a moment when an animal comes out of the bush at you, a million things seem to happen at once.” 33:32 · “We'll get busy. It's not at all simple. You could write a lot about it if you could get it just right.” 33:43 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 The Snows of Kilimanjaro (1952) at 33:57 (passage 33:31–34:24); US record: No renewal found

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