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The Snows of Kilimanjaro · Beat 177 · permalink

Vehicle interior

59:16–59:28 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; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 59:1959:19Frame at 59:2659:26

Play from 59:16 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 125 · shots 278–279. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
vehicle_interior (vehicle interior, interior) evidence: frame:2
People
  • man, dark hair, wearing light shirt, lying on boat visible
  • woman, blonde, in water, later seen in dim light wearing strapless top visible, audible
Seen happening
  • man lies on boat while woman swims nearby [frame:1]
  • woman smiles in dimly lit interior [frame:2]
Also said
“Swimming to you, darling.” 59:26
Seen
boat [frame:1], water [frame:1], blanket or fabric [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: romantic, intimate; themes: romance, leisure, intimacy; style notes: close framing on faces, dim lighting in interior shot, natural lighting on water

A man lies on a boat while a woman swims nearby; later, the woman is seen in a dimly lit interior, smiling. Dialogue suggests a romantic incentive for swimming.

“You can swim very well.” 59:22 · “Naturally, when I have an incentive.” 59:23 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 59:19 (passage 59:16–59:28); US record: No renewal found

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