Public Reel

White Zombie · Beat 1 · permalink

Other

0:00–1:22 Registered 1932

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 1 quote checked against the transcript; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 0:410:41

Play from 0:00 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: start of film. Sequence 1 · shots 0–0. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
other (other) evidence: frame:1
Seen
title card
On screen
STORY AND DIALOGUE BY GARNETT WESTON ART AND TECHNICAL RALPH BERGER JACK PIERCE CARL AXELLE HERBERT GLAZER SIDNEY MARCUS HERBERT FARJEON HAROLD ANDERSON GUY BEVIER WILLIAMS CONRAD TRITSCHLER L.E. CLARK
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: ominous; themes: horror, credit sequence, mystery; style notes: static shot, high-contrast black-and-white, text-dominated frame with shadowy figures in background suggesting horror genre

The beat shows a title card listing credits for story, dialogue, and art/technical roles against a dark background with indistinct figures. No characters or actions are visible; only text and a static image are present.

“*Painful music*” 0:00 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 White Zombie (1932) at 0:41 (passage 0:00–1:22); 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/white_zombie/b1.png
Figure for a newsletter or page
Cite