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The Snows of Kilimanjaro · Beat 156 · permalink

Restaurant

49:11–51:40 Registered 1952

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 50:2650:26

Play from 49:11 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 110 · shots 248–248. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
restaurant (restaurant, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • woman, dark hair, wearing a dark dress with sheer sleeves, seated at a table visible, audible
  • Harry (named at t:49:26): man, dark hair, wearing a dark suit and tie, seated at a table visible, audible
Also said
“There's a war going on here, too. Right here at this table. There's a dandy little war going on.” 50:00 · “I'll just go back to Paris alone, as you say, and not drive myself crazy at all while I wait for you. Wait and wait.” 50:50
Seen
candle [frame:1], wine glasses [frame:1], table [frame:1], window with patterned glass [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense, melancholic, emotionally charged; themes: love and separation, emotional conflict, self-sacrifice, unresolved tension; style notes: close two-shot, candlelit, intimate framing, mid-century costume design, dramatic lighting emphasizing facial expressions

A man and a woman sit at a candlelit table in a dimly lit interior, engaged in a tense, emotionally charged conversation about separation, love, and a telegram concerning a war assignment. The woman references a dancer and questions the man’s intentions, while he urges her to forget their troubles and move on.

“You know, darling, I think that dancer likes me. Oh, if the dancer likes you, I like you too, darling.” 49:13 · “It meant that I'm beginning a lifetime without you. Well, that's real nonsense.” 49:44 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 50:26 (passage 49:11–51:40); US record: No renewal found

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