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The Snows of Kilimanjaro · Beat 276 · permalink

Bedroom

1:30:22–1:31:21 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; 2 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 1:30:231:30:23Frame at 1:30:531:30:53

Play from 1:30:22 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 198 · shots 468–469. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
bedroom (bedroom, interior) evidence: frame:1, frame:2
People
  • woman with dark hair, wearing a light-colored robe visible, audible
  • man lying in bed, wearing light-colored pajamas or hospital gown visible, audible
Also said
“He'd lost his way.” 90:51 · “Worked the fat off my soul.” 91:19
Seen
bed [frame:2], robe [frame:1], pajamas or hospital gown [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: somber and introspective; themes: confession, regret, self-reckoning, return to origins; style notes: low-key lighting, close framing on faces, static camera, intimate scale

A woman in a light robe speaks to a man lying in bed in a dimly lit room; the dialogue suggests a personal confession about a past mistake and a desire to return to a former state. The setting appears to be a private interior space at night, with minimal props visible.

“You owe me the courtesy of being honest.” 90:23 · “Guess why I wanted to come here is the point of the whole buddy joke.” 90:36 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 1:30:23 (passage 1:30:22–1:31:21); US record: No renewal found

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