Public Reel

The Snows of Kilimanjaro · Beat 76 · permalink

Sidewalk

23:28–23:48 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; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 23:3823:38

Play from 23:28 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 55 · shots 119–119. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
sidewalk (sidewalk, exterior) evidence: frame:1
Time of day
night evidence: frame:1
People
  • man wearing dark coat and hat, visible in profile visible, audible
  • woman in red top, hand to head, looking up at man visible
Seen happening
  • Woman listens with hand to head, man continues speaking. [frame:1]
Also said
“But once I saw France, I decided that this is as good a place to rest as anything.” 23:40 · “For him and for myself, so I stayed on.” 23:45
Seen
bare trees [frame:1], dark coat [frame:1], hat [frame:1], red top [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: somber and reflective; themes: war legacy, displacement, personal choice; style notes: low-key lighting, night exterior, medium two-shot, static framing

A man and a woman stand outdoors at night; the man speaks about his father’s death and his decision to stay in France. The scene is dimly lit with bare trees in the background.

“And my father was a soldier.” 23:28 · “He had the bad luck to get himself killed in the Argo.” 23:30 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.

Share

Paste the permalink anywhere that shows link previews and it carries the frame, the time and the finding. The card image can be saved and used with a credit.

Frame from The Snows of Kilimanjaro (1952) at 23:38 (passage 23:28–23:48); US record: No renewal found

Permalink
always the current cut
Permalink to this version
warns if the beats are recut later
Card image
https://publicreel.org/cards/moment/Kilimanjaro/b76.png
Figure for a newsletter or page
Cite