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The Snows of Kilimanjaro · Beat 173 · permalink

Forest

57:17–58:33 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; 0 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 57:5557:55

Play from 57:17 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 121 · shots 272–272. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
forest (forest, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man lying on ground, wearing light-colored shirt and dark vest, appears injured or resting visible
  • man standing, wearing white shirt and dark vest, holding a rifle or similar object visible
Seen happening
  • A man stands over another man lying on the ground in a wooded area. [frame:1]
Also said
“And if she isn't satisfactory, you get your money back.” 57:51 · “A lot of things are tough.” 58:31
Seen
rifle or similar object [frame:1], trees [frame:1], dirt ground [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and conversational; themes: gender roles, cultural comparison, relationships as transaction; style notes: medium shot, natural lighting, outdoor setting, static camera

A man in a white shirt and vest stands over another man lying on the ground in a wooded area; spoken lines include references to 'Naomi,' 'Amen,' and comparisons of relationships to buying cows. No named characters are established by dialogue, and no on-screen text is visible.

“Naomi.” 57:19 · “You Africans may have the right system with women at that.” 57:40 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 57:55 (passage 57:17–58:33); US record: No renewal found

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