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The Snows of Kilimanjaro · Beat 296 · permalink

Camp

1:38:34–1:39:19 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; 4 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 2 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:38:401:38:40Frame at 1:39:021:39:02

Play from 1:38:34 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 210 · shots 501–502. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
camp (camp, exterior) evidence: frame:2
Time of day
night evidence: frame:2
People
  • man lying down, wearing light-colored shirt, appears ill or resting visible
  • person leaning over p1, dark hair, wearing light shirt, appears concerned visible
  • unseen, voice commands others audible
  • unseen, mentioned as Joe and Payton mentioned
Seen happening
  • A person leans over a man lying in a tent. [frame:1]
  • A campfire burns in the foreground with tents visible in the dark background. [frame:2]
Also said
“You'll do just as I say.” 98:54 · “What a life. Man can't live as he pleases. Can't even die as it means.” 98:56
Seen
tent [frame:1], campfire [frame:2], bedding or blankets [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and somber; themes: confinement, mortality, authority vs. autonomy; style notes: low-key lighting, close framing on characters, dark background with campfire glow

A man lies in a tent at night while another person leans over him; a campfire burns nearby. Someone off-screen commands others to enter the tent, and a character laments the constraints of life and death.

“In the tent. Come go! Joe, Payton, stop it! I don't want to go in the tent. In the tent.” 98:46 · “Oh, it's a clear night. It's not going to rain.” 98:51 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 1:38:40 (passage 1:38:34–1:39:19); US record: No renewal found

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