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The Snows of Kilimanjaro · Beat 289 · permalink

Camp

1:37:12–1:37:38 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; 4 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 1:37:161:37:16Frame at 1:37:251:37:25Frame at 1:37:341:37:34

Play from 1:37:12 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 207 · shots 487–489. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
camp (camp, interior) evidence: frame:3
Time of day
night evidence: frame:1
People
  • man lying down, wearing light-colored shirt, appears ill visible
  • Katie (named at t:1:33): woman, dark hair, wearing light robe, kneeling beside p1 visible, audible
  • Jumbo (named at t:1:33): man standing, wearing dark vest over light shirt, cap, appears to be approaching visible
  • man standing, dark clothing, face obscured by mask or shadow, holding object visible
Seen happening
  • A man in a cap and vest stands near a masked figure. [frame:1]
  • A woman kneels beside a sick man, speaking urgently. [frame:2]
  • The woman continues to plead while the man in the cap approaches the sick man’s side. [frame:3]
Also said
“Jumbo Mujai.” 1:34 · “Calisagna.” 1:17
Seen
tent [frame:3], bed or cot [frame:2], mask [frame:1], cap [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense, anxious; themes: illness, fear, intrusion, pleading; style notes: low-key lighting, tight framing on characters, high contrast between dark background and lit figures

A man lies ill while a woman pleads with him to send away another man who has approached; the scene is set at night under a tent with minimal lighting. The dialogue includes fragmented phrases and names like 'Jumbo' and 'Dr. Pasteur', suggesting a tense interaction.

“He's heard that I'm sick with the bad spirits. He wants to be in on the kill. Get rid of him, Harry. He gives me the creeps. Ask Dr. Pasteur to sit down. Katie. Katie. Please send him away. Jumbo.” 1:21 · “Wanamakrambo.” 1:33 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 1:37:16 (passage 1:37:12–1:37:38); US record: No renewal found

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