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White Zombie · Beat 100 · permalink

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23:24–23:30 Registered 1932

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 1 name 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 23:2723:27

Play from 23:24 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 52 · shots 190–190. 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
  • Hand and forearm visible, wearing a dark sleeve; no face or full body shown. visible
Seen happening
  • A hand holds a small object over a decorated box. [frame:1]
Seen
decorated box, hand holding object
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: mysterious; themes: ritual, supernatural; style notes: high-contrast lighting, tight close-up, static framing

A hand holds a small object over a decorated box containing a doll-like figure. The scene is dimly lit and appears to be indoors.

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 White Zombie (1932) at 23:27 (passage 23:24–23:30); US record: No renewal found

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