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The Snows of Kilimanjaro · Beat 261 · permalink

Bar

1:25:17–1:25:56 Registered 1952

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 6 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:25:191:25:19Frame at 1:25:391:25:39

Play from 1:25:17 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 189 · shots 440–441. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
(bar, interior) evidence: frame:1, frame:2
People
  • man in dark suit, visible from side, seated at bar visible
  • woman with dark hair, back to camera, wearing dark dress visible
  • man with light hair, wearing brown jacket and white scarf, seated at bar visible
  • woman with light hair, wearing dark dress with white flower in hair visible
  • man in suit, seated at bar, holding bottle visible
  • woman with dark hair, wearing light top, seated at bar visible
Also said
“What the leopard was seeking.” 85:36 · “It's an unsatisfactory story. It ends badly. But what was the Leopold wrigger there in the first place?” 85:46
Seen
bottle, bar counter, wall sconces, decorative wall panels, white flower in hair
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: contemplative and slightly tense; themes: mystery, unresolved questions, conversation as narrative device; style notes: medium close-ups, dim lighting with focused highlights, period costume, intimate framing

Three people are seated at a bar, engaged in a conversation about a leopard and an unsatisfactory story. The setting is dimly lit with decorative wall elements and a bottle on the counter.

“All that snow...” 85:17 · “- What is guilty, Mr. - Some lousy cat got cold feet.” 85:22 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 1:25:19 (passage 1:25:17–1:25:56); US record: No renewal found

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