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The Snows of Kilimanjaro · Beat 99 · permalink

Field

30:52–31:46 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; 4 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 31:1931:19

Play from 30:52 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 70 · shots 158–158. 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
People
  • man in safari hat and light-colored shirt, holding rifle visible, audible
  • woman in wide-brimmed hat and light coat, holding rifle visible, audible
  • Mr. Johnson (named at t:31:23): man in safari hat and vest, standing center visible, audible
  • man in dark head covering and safari jacket, partially obscured visible
Seen happening
  • A group stands in a field, armed with rifles, discussing whether to continue hunting. [frame:1]
Also said
“All right, but if you're going, so am I. Oh, no, you're not, is she, Mr. Johnson? You married her. You're going to stay here with Simba. I was only having fun.” 31:23 · “Harry, don't you want to kiss me?” 31:31
Seen
rifle [frame:1], safari hats [frame:1], safari jackets [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense yet playful; themes: hunting expedition, gender roles in adventure, fear versus bravado; style notes: medium shot, natural outdoor lighting, safari costumes, group framing suggests ensemble dynamics

A group of people in safari attire stand in a grassy outdoor setting, discussing whether to proceed with a hunt or stay behind; one person expresses fear while another jokes about being a 'great white hunter.'

“Missed. I told you I didn't want to do it. No harm done. Everybody misses. I never claimed I was a hunter. You're the hunter. Yes, and you, the great white hunter. Sure, sure. Come on, Annie Oakley. Have yourself a drink. Don't let the master ride you. Shall we get going?” 30:57 · “He took cover there. What do you mean, get going? Where will he break out, do you think? I won't go, and I don't want you to. I'm frightened. Well, you've probably scared him half to death. There won't be anything to it.” 31:14 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 31:19 (passage 30:52–31:46); US record: No renewal found

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