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The Snows of Kilimanjaro · Beat 198 · permalink

Living room

1:08:54–1:09:29 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 1:09:081:09:08Frame at 1:09:241:09:24Frame at 1:09:281:09:28

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Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 137 · shots 340–342. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
living_room (living room, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man, dark hair, wearing a black tuxedo with bow tie visible, audible
  • Cynthia Green (named at t:68:57): woman, blonde hair, wearing a black one-shoulder dress with silver embellishments visible, audible
  • woman, dark hair, wearing a white gown with puffed sleeves visible
Seen happening
  • A man in a tuxedo stands and gestures while speaking to a woman in a black dress. [frame:1]
  • The man holds a glass and looks down, appearing contemplative. [frame:2]
  • The woman in the black dress holds a white card and looks upward with a slight smile. [frame:3]
Also said
“Yeah, I love you.” 69:22 · “That isn't important at all.” 69:24
Seen
tuxedo [frame:1], black one-shoulder dress [frame:3], white gown [frame:1], glass [frame:2], white card [frame:3], sofa [frame:1], side table [frame:1], arched window with curtains [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: intimate and conversational; themes: romantic declaration, literary fame, social interaction in a domestic setting; style notes: studio-lit interior with formal attire; medium and close-up shots emphasize dialogue and character interaction

A man in a tuxedo speaks to a woman in a black dress while another woman in a white gown sits nearby; the dialogue references a girl named Cynthia Green and a book. The man and the woman in black interact closely, with the man holding a glass and the woman holding a card.

“There must be a girl named Cynthia Green.” 68:57 · “Not the last I heard. From Madrid. My dear, devoted fiancé has so many fans. And I am one of them. Oh, I just devoured your last book.” 69:04 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 1:09:08 (passage 1:08:54–1:09:29); US record: No renewal found

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