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The Snows of Kilimanjaro · Beat 25 · permalink

Beach

6:19–6:41 Registered 1952

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 2 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 6:216:21Frame at 6:276:27Frame at 6:376:37

Play from 6:19 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 19 · shots 39–41. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
beach (beach, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • shirtless, dark-skinned, muscular build visible
  • wears a light-colored hat and shirt, medium build visible
  • wears a wide-brimmed hat and darker shirt, medium build visible
Seen happening
  • Three men stand together facing the camera near water. [frame:1]
  • Two figures, one adult and one child, walk away from the camera toward the water. [frame:2]
  • A wide shot shows calm water with rocks and distant land under a cloudy sky. [frame:3]
Seen
wide-brimmed hat [frame:1], light-colored shirt [frame:1], rocks in water [frame:3]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: calm and observational; themes: exploration, journey, natural landscape; style notes: medium close-up followed by medium and wide shots; natural lighting under overcast sky; composition emphasizes figures against water and horizon

Three men stand near a body of water; one is shirtless, another wears a hat and light shirt, and the third is in a hat and darker shirt. The scene shifts to show two figures from behind walking toward the water's edge, then cuts to a wide shot of the water and distant land.

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 6:21 (passage 6:19–6:41); US record: No renewal found

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