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The Snows of Kilimanjaro · Beat 245 · permalink

Private office

1:19:18–1:20:14 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; 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 1:19:221:19:22Frame at 1:19:331:19:33Frame at 1:19:491:19:49Frame at 1:20:131:20:13

Play from 1:19:18 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 178 · shots 402–408. 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
  • man, dark hair, wearing dark suit and patterned tie visible, audible
  • older man, white mustache, wearing striped pajamas, lying in bed visible
Seen happening
  • An older man is shown lying in bed, looking upward. [frame:4]
Also said
“By not using it.” 79:54 · “By pride and by prejudice.” 80:08
Seen
dark suit, patterned tie, bed with ornate headboard, striped pajamas
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: melancholic; themes: self-reflection, regret, wasted potential; style notes: close-up framing, high-contrast lighting, static camera

A man in a dark suit speaks while seated indoors; another man is shown lying in bed. The transcript contains a monologue about wasted talent and self-betrayal.

“Oh, I've seen the seven wonders of the world.” 79:19 · “I've destroyed my talent.” 79:51 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 1:19:22 (passage 1:19:18–1:20:14); US record: No renewal found

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