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The Snows of Kilimanjaro · Beat 254 · permalink

Bar

1:22:55–1:23:26 Registered 1952

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 2 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 1:23:111:23:11

Play from 1:22:55 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 183 · shots 429–429. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
bar (bar, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in dark coat, seen from back, standing near a table visible
  • man in dark suit, facing camera, gesturing with hands visible, audible
Seen happening
  • Two men stand in a bar with artwork on the walls. [frame:1]
Seen
artwork on walls [frame:1], tables and chairs [frame:1], bar counter [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: nostalgic and tense; themes: preservation vs. change, nostalgia, conflict over tradition; style notes: low-key lighting, medium shot, cluttered set design with wall art, static framing

Two men are in a dimly lit, cluttered interior space with artwork on the walls; one speaks about the place remaining unchanged while the other objects to alterations. The dialogue references preservation and resistance to change.

“- Oh, young Harry. - This place is just the same. The same dirty, smoothing, it's the same wonderful place.” 82:58 · “- This new abomination. - No, no, no, no, leave it. Why do you let him change it out there? Who gave him the right to spoil it like that? - Here we don't change. We have no business. Let no change. Oh, look! Si! The same! - That's because it's preserved in a puddle.” 83:14 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 1:23:11 (passage 1:22:55–1:23:26); US record: No renewal found

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