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The Snows of Kilimanjaro · Beat 212 · permalink

Battlefield

1:12:58–1:13:16 Registered 1952

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 3 quotes checked against the transcript; 4 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:13:001:13:00Frame at 1:13:031:13:03Frame at 1:13:101:13:10

Play from 1:12:58 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 148 · shots 359–361. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
battlefield (battlefield, exterior) evidence: frame:1, frame:2, frame:3
People
  • man wearing a dark beret and dark jacket, medium build, appears mid-adult visible
  • man wearing glasses and a dark cap, visible from chest up, appears mid-adult visible
  • soldiers in dark uniforms, some with rifles, visible in background and mid-ground visible
  • unspecified speaker audible
Seen happening
  • A man in a beret looks off-camera while soldiers are visible in the background. [frame:1]
  • A man with glasses and a cap looks upward, surrounded by soldiers and debris. [frame:2]
  • A soldier walks through rubble with smoke in the background. [frame:3]
Also said
“You'd die laughing if I told you.” 73:06
Seen
beret, glasses, rifle, smoke, rubble
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and somber; themes: war, conflict, uncertainty; style notes: medium close-ups and wide shots, low-contrast lighting, muted color palette, chaotic composition in frame 2

A man in a beret is shown in a battlefield setting with soldiers and smoke; another man speaks off-screen. No named characters appear, and the scene is set during an unspecified time of day.

“No.” 73:01 · “What are you doing here?” 73:02 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 1:13:00 (passage 1:12:58–1:13:16); US record: No renewal found

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