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The Snows of Kilimanjaro · Beat 169 · permalink

Field

55:27–55:50 Registered 1952

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 3 quotes checked against the transcript; 3 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 55:3055:30Frame at 55:3955:39Frame at 55:4855:48

Play from 55:27 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 119 · shots 264–266. 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
People
  • man lying in a camp cot, wearing light-colored shirt and trousers, appears ill or resting visible
  • man sitting, wearing white robe, dark vest with pattern, headwrap, holding a bucket visible
  • figures in distance, indistinct clothing, approaching on foot visible
Seen happening
  • A man lies in a camp cot under a tent. [frame:1]
  • A man in traditional attire sits near the cot holding a bucket. [frame:2]
  • Figures approach across the field toward the tent. [frame:3]
Also said
“Oh, yes. Here she comes now.” 55:41
Seen
camp cot, tent, bucket, acacia tree, cloudy sky
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and anticipatory; themes: isolation, arrival, illness; style notes: wide shots emphasize isolation in the landscape; medium shot under tent creates intimacy; natural lighting with overcast sky

A man lies in a camp cot under a tent while another man in traditional attire sits nearby; in the distance, figures approach across an open field under a cloudy sky. The transcript includes a line about a party ending and a hostess arriving.

“I hope.” 55:33 · “When the party's over, you're likely to get let with your hostess.” 55:37 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 55:30 (passage 55:27–55:50); US record: No renewal found

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