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The Snows of Kilimanjaro · Beat 178 · permalink

Boat

59:28–59:57 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 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 59:4159:41Frame at 59:5559:55

Play from 59:28 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 125 · shots 280–281. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
boat (vehicle interior, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man, dark hair, wearing light-colored short-sleeved shirt and trousers, leaning over boat edge visible
  • Bridget Licks (named at t:59:43): woman, partially submerged in water, light-colored top visible visible
Seen happening
  • A man leans over the side of a boat toward a woman in the water. [frame:1]
  • The man continues leaning over the boat, appearing to speak to the woman. [frame:2]
Also said
“You are not going away tonight.” 59:49 · “Well, swim around and tell me why you think I'm not.” 59:52
Seen
boat [frame:1], water [frame:1], colorful blankets or clothing on boat [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: confrontation, interruption of plans, romantic tension; style notes: medium close-up, natural lighting, water-level framing

A man leans over a woman in water near a boat while speaking; the woman is partially submerged. The dialogue indicates a confrontation about changing plans and not leaving that night.

“Bridget Licks.” 59:43 · “I swam way over to tell you that I've changed your plans.” 59:45 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 59:41 (passage 59:28–59:57); US record: No renewal found

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