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The Snows of Kilimanjaro · Beat 163 · permalink

Private office

53:21–53:26 Registered 1952

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 1 name checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 53:2453:24

Play from 53:21 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 114 · shots 255–255. 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
  • hand writing with pen, wearing dark sleeve visible
Seen happening
  • A hand writes 'Sorry - must refuse assignment. Harry Street' on paper. [frame:1]
Seen
pen [frame:1], paper with typed fields [frame:1]
On screen
Sorry - must refuse assignment. Harry Street
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: formal, decisive; themes: correspondence, refusal, bureaucracy; style notes: close-up, static, focused on handwriting

A hand writes a note declining an assignment, signed 'Harry Street'. No people are visible beyond the hand, and no dialogue is present.

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 53:24 (passage 53:21–53:26); US record: No renewal found

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