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The Snows of Kilimanjaro · Beat 183 · permalink

Studio

1:01:07–1:02:18 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; 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 1:01:391:01:39Frame at 1:02:131:02:13Frame at 1:02:171:02:17

Play from 1:01:07 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 128 · shots 291–293. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
studio (other, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • woman, dark hair in bun, wearing blue dress, working on sculpture visible
  • Beatrice (named at t:62:04): woman, blonde, wearing gold off-shoulder dress, leaning on pillar visible, audible
  • Mr. Smith (named at t:62:07): man, older, wearing dark suit, standing visible, audible
Seen happening
  • A woman in blue works on a sculpture. [frame:1]
  • A woman in gold and a man in a suit stand near a pillar and talk. [frame:2]
  • The woman in blue looks toward the sculpture. [frame:3]
Also said
“Mr. Smith.” 62:07 · “There's a fine lot of divinity in that name.” 62:12
Seen
sculpture [frame:1], easel [frame:1], pillar with carvings [frame:2], window with lattice [frame:3]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and conversational; themes: social interaction, artistic creation, introductions, romantic tension; style notes: medium shots, studio lighting, static camera, focus on character interaction

A woman in a blue dress works on a sculpture while another woman in a gold dress and a man in a suit converse nearby. The dialogue includes introductions and a question about a 'quest' and 'why do you want her'.

“It would be much more polite if you'd say it, darling.” 61:33 · “Beatrice, this is my fiancé's nice uncle.” 62:04 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 1:01:39 (passage 1:01:07–1:02:18); US record: No renewal found

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