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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; 11 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.
Play from 1:01:19 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page
Evidence and details
Starts here: pause in speech; cut falls inside a spoken line: no pause was available without exceeding the length cap. Sequence 1 · shots 7–9. 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 in dark suit and tie, visible in shadow behind pillar visible
- man in feathered headdress and tribal costume, seated visible
- man in tribal costume with headband, seated visible
- Agnes (named at t:63:25): woman in light-colored jacket and dark hat, medium build, 30s-40s visible, audible
- unseen speaker, referred to as Jeff audible, mentioned
- unseen speaker, referred to as Mac audible, mentioned
- unseen speaker, referred to as Bill Summers audible, mentioned
- unseen speaker, referred to as Admiral Wainwright audible, mentioned
- unseen speaker, referred to as Mamba audible, mentioned
- unseen speaker, referred to as Madame Sangry mentioned
- unseen speaker, referred to as Barbara mentioned
- Seen happening
- A man in a suit stands behind a pillar while two costumed men sit nearby. [frame:1]
- A large fire erupts in the interior space. [frame:2]
- A woman in a hat and jacket speaks directly to the camera. [frame:3]
- Also said
- “Mamba, you fool!” 64:15 · “killed the crew and tortured me to get information about our canal zone fortifications for his government.” 65:52
- Seen
- torch, stone pillar, feathered headdress, tribal costume, fire, hat, light-colored jacket
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and ominous; themes: hypnotism and mind control, colonial horror, resistance against tyranny, zombie as metaphor for loss of agency; style notes: high-contrast black and white, static medium shots, dramatic lighting with torches and fire, theatrical costuming
A group confronts a cult-like group in a stone-walled interior, leading to a fire and a woman speaking. Dialogue reveals a plot involving hypnotism, zombies, and a doctor's attempt to extract military secrets.
“Who are you? Speak! Tell me! Who are you? I am... I am... Agnes... Agnes...” 63:25 · “Admiral Wainwright, what were your orders?” 64:08 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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