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The Snows of Kilimanjaro · Beat 327 · permalink

Field

1:48:44–1:48:56 Registered 1952

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 1 quote checked against the transcript; 1 name checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:48:461:48:46Frame at 1:48:491:48:49Frame at 1:48:531:48:53

Play from 1:48:44 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 233 · shots 548–550. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
field (field, exterior) evidence: frame:1
Time of day
night evidence: frame:1
People
  • prone figure under a blue blanket, possibly injured or deceased visible
Seen happening
  • A hyena stands near a prone figure under a blanket. [frame:1]
  • A close-up shows a hole in the blanket covering the prone figure. [frame:2]
  • The hyena turns its head, still near the prone figure. [frame:3]
Seen
hyena [frame:1], blue blanket [frame:2], hole in blanket [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: ominous, tense; themes: danger, death, wildlife; style notes: low-resolution, darkly lit, tight framing on the hyena and the blanket, suggesting suspense or danger

A dark, low-resolution scene shows a hyena standing near a prone figure under a blanket, with a single spoken word 'No.' The setting is outdoors at night, with minimal lighting and indistinct background figures.

“No.” 108:53 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 1:48:46 (passage 1:48:44–1:48:56); US record: No renewal found

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