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The Snows of Kilimanjaro · Beat 294 · permalink

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1:38:07–1:38:32 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; 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:38:161:38:16Frame at 1:38:271:38:27Frame at 1:38:291:38:29Frame at 1:38:311:38:31

Play from 1:38:07 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 208 · shots 496–499. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
other (other, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man lying down, wearing dark shirt, short hair, medium build visible
  • woman leaning over p1, dark hair, light-colored robe or shirt visible
  • Doc (named at t:98:24): masked figure, dark skin, wearing face paint or mask, holding a bag and later a staff or spear, bare-chested with necklace visible
Seen happening
  • A woman leans over a man lying down. [frame:1]
  • A masked figure holds a bag and a staff. [frame:2]
  • Bones are thrown onto the ground. [frame:3]
  • The masked figure looks forward, holding a staff. [frame:4]
Also said
“Go ahead, you faded, Doc.” 98:24 · “BOTS CARDS!” 98:28
Seen
bag of bones [frame:2], bones on ground [frame:3], staff or spear [frame:2, frame:4], face mask or paint [frame:2, frame:4], necklace [frame:2, frame:4]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: ritualistic, tense; themes: ritual, diagnosis, cultural practice; style notes: low-key lighting, close framing on faces, dark background, theatrical costume and makeup

A man lies down while a woman leans over him; a masked figure holds a bag of bones and later throws them on the ground. The dialogue refers to a ritual for diagnosing illness using animal bones.

“No fooling. That stinking cat's skin bag has got a couple of dozen bits of bones from the hind legs of anteaters, tortoises, baboons, and what not.” 98:07 · “From the pattern that they will make when he throws them on the ground, he will be able to diagnose what ails me.” 98:18 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 1:38:16 (passage 1:38:07–1:38:32); US record: No renewal found

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