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White Zombie · Beat 103 · permalink

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23:42–24:06 Registered 1932

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 2 quotes checked against the transcript; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 23:4823:48Frame at 24:0024:00

Play from 23:42 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 55 · shots 193–194. 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, frame:2
People
  • woman, wearing a bridal veil and headpiece, dark lipstick, ornate necklace visible
  • man, older, intense expression, dark eyebrows, visible mouth and nose visible
Seen
bridal veil and headpiece [frame:1], ornate necklace [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: solemn, intense; themes: ritual, religious invocation, dramatic expression; style notes: close-up framing, high-contrast lighting, black-and-white film stock

A woman in bridal attire and a man with an intense expression are shown in close-up. A prayer is spoken during this segment.

“and” 23:48 · “The praise of our Lord and Savior, and the love of God, and the fellowship of His angels, even of evermore. Amen.” 23:57 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 White Zombie (1932) at 23:48 (passage 23:42–24:06); US record: No renewal found

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