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The Snows of Kilimanjaro · Beat 192 · permalink

Private office

1:06:22–1:07:14 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; 1 name checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:06:261:06:26Frame at 1:06:391:06:39Frame at 1:06:521:06:52Frame at 1:07:041:07:04

Play from 1:06:22 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 132 · shots 320–323. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
private_office (private office, interior) evidence: frame:4
People
  • Cynthia (named at t:66:37): man, mid-30s, medium build, wearing light-colored shirt and dark tie, sometimes in a dark suit and fedora visible, audible
Seen happening
  • A man stands near a window, looking down. [frame:1]
  • The man, wearing a fedora, looks at newspapers displayed outdoors. [frame:2]
  • The man walks through a dimly lit room with another man seated at a desk. [frame:3]
  • The man sits at a desk, writing with a pen. [frame:4]
Also said
“I've never been able to kill the loneliness.” 66:58 · “Everyone I've been with has only made me miss you more.” 67:03
Seen
fedora hat, newspapers, desk, pen, curtains
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: melancholic and introspective; themes: loneliness, regret, unrequited love, fame vs. personal fulfillment; style notes: static medium shots, dim interior lighting, period costume, focused on solitary male figure

A man in a light shirt and dark tie is shown in various settings, including standing near a window, looking at newspapers outdoors, and writing at a desk. He speaks about fame, loneliness, and a woman named Cynthia, whom he still loves despite her absence.

“My name in the papers, my face in the better magazines.” 66:31 · “And why didn't she come back to me?” 66:44 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 1:06:26 (passage 1:06:22–1:07:14); US record: No renewal found

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