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The Snows of Kilimanjaro · Beat 132 · permalink

Field

39:33–40:03 Registered 1952

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; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 39:3639:36Frame at 39:4139:41Frame at 39:5339:53

Play from 39:33 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 91 · shots 213–215. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
field (field, exterior) evidence: frame:1
Time of day
night evidence: frame:1, frame:3
People
  • man, dark hair, wearing a light-colored jacket, visible in frame:3 visible
  • woman, dark hair, wearing a light-colored dress, visible in frame:3 visible
Seen happening
  • A man and a woman embrace outdoors. [frame:3]
  • A wide shot shows a dark field with silhouetted figures in the distance. [frame:1]
  • The scene is almost entirely dark, with faint lights visible. [frame:2]
Also said
“There's a wonderful book in it.” 39:44 · “Don't talk it all away.” 40:00
Seen
jacket [frame:3], dress [frame:3], trees [frame:1, frame:3], dark sky [frame:1, frame:3]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: intimate, somber; themes: romance, melancholy, resignation; style notes: low-key lighting, silhouetted figures, close framing on embrace, dark color palette

A man and a woman are shown embracing outdoors at dusk or night, with a dark sky and silhouetted trees in the background. The transcript includes fragmented dialogue such as 'Come on,' 'Amen,' and 'Don't talk it all away,' suggesting an emotional or intimate moment.

“No.” 39:37 · “Amen.” 39:43 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 39:36 (passage 39:33–40:03); US record: No renewal found

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