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The Snows of Kilimanjaro · Beat 202 · permalink

Private office

1:09:39–1:11:37 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 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:10:381:10:38Frame at 1:11:371:11:37

Play from 1:09:39 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 141 · shots 346–347. 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:1
People
  • Harry (named at t:69:55): man in dark suit, seen from behind and side, medium build visible, audible
  • Ari (named at t:70:10): person in purple top and dark overalls, seen from back, medium build visible, audible
  • Thomas (named at t:71:34): not visible mentioned
Seen happening
  • Two people stand close in a dim room, one facing away, the other leaning in. [frame:1]
  • A vehicle is visible in a field with dry grass and trees. [frame:2]
Also said
“Such a fool trying to look like a knight questing for the Holy Grail.” 71:15 · “Horses, Harry!” 71:26
Seen
lamp with orange shade, wooden table with objects, vehicle in field
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and emotionally charged; themes: romantic conflict, self-doubt, absurdity of idealism; style notes: tight framing in interior, dim lighting with strong shadows; abrupt cut to wide, sunlit exterior with low resolution

Two people argue in a dimly lit interior, then the scene cuts to an outdoor field with a vehicle. One person, called Harry, is accused of acting foolishly and is told they look like a knight seeking the Holy Grail.

“Harry!” 69:55 · “Lover, darling, stop and listen to me.” 70:12 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 1:10:38 (passage 1:09:39–1:11:37); US record: No renewal found

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