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The Snows of Kilimanjaro · Beat 196 · permalink

Private office

1:08:04–1:08:14 Registered 1952

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 2 quotes checked against the transcript; 1 name 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 1:08:071:08:07Frame at 1:08:121:08:12

Play from 1:08:04 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 136 · shots 333–334. 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:2
People
  • woman, mid-20s to 30s, wearing a dark sleeveless dress with embellishments, holding papers visible
Seen happening
  • A close-up shows an envelope addressed to Cynthia Green at Hotel Florida, Madrid, Spain, and to Mr. Harry Street, Antibes, France. [frame:1]
  • A woman stands in a room with arched windows and patterned walls, holding papers. [frame:2]
Seen
envelope, papers, arched windows, table
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: calm, transactional; themes: correspondence, routine, personal identity; style notes: medium shot with soft lighting, static framing, focus on character and prop

A woman in a dark dress stands in a room with arched windows and patterned walls, holding papers. A close-up shows an envelope addressed to Cynthia Green at Hotel Florida in Madrid, Spain, and to Mr. Harry Street in Antibes, France.

“Anything interesting?” 68:10 · “Routine.” 68:13 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 1:08:07 (passage 1:08:04–1:08:14); US record: No renewal found

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