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The Snows of Kilimanjaro · Beat 240 · permalink

Field

1:17:49–1:17:53 Registered 1952

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:17:511:17:51

Play from 1:17:49 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 173 · shots 396–396. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
field (field, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • dark-clothed figure, crouching or moving low to the ground visible
  • dark-clothed figure, standing or walking behind p1 visible
Seen happening
  • Two figures move across a field with smoke rising in the background. [frame:1]
Seen
smoke [frame:1], sparse bushes [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: conflict, survival; style notes: wide shot, hazy lighting, muted color palette, distant framing

Two figures move across an open, hazy field with smoke rising in the background. The scene is shot from a distance, showing sparse vegetation and indistinct structures.

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 1:17:51 (passage 1:17:49–1:17:53); US record: No renewal found

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