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The Snows of Kilimanjaro · Beat 301 · permalink

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1:40:32–1:41:08 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; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:40:441:40:44Frame at 1:41:021:41:02

Play from 1:40:32 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 215 · shots 509–510. 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 in bed, dark hair, mustache, wearing dark shirt visible
  • man standing, dark hair, wearing light shirt, partially visible visible, audible
Seen happening
  • A man lies in bed while another stands beside him. [frame:1]
  • The man in bed is shown in close-up, eyes closed. [frame:2]
Also said
“People change.” 100:45 · “It's my duty to run it.” 100:48
Seen
bed [frame:1], pillow [frame:1], draped fabric [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: somber; themes: duty, observation, change; style notes: low-key lighting, close framing on faces, static camera

A man lies in bed while another stands beside him; dialogue suggests a discussion about duty and observation. The setting appears to be a dimly lit interior, possibly a tent or makeshift room.

“The” 100:43 · “People.” 100:44 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 1:40:44 (passage 1:40:32–1:41:08); US record: No renewal found

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