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White Zombie · Beat 108 · permalink

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26:17–27:07 Registered 1932

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 4 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 26:4226:42

Play from 26:17 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 58 · shots 201–201. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
other (other, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • multiple indistinct figures visible in low light, some standing, some seated or crouched; clothing not discernible visible
  • unseen speaker audible
Also said
“yes my trouble you think you can do it alone” 26:52 · “I told the rich master, once my master, he fed me.” 27:04
Seen
indistinct figures and structures
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: ominous and chaotic; themes: power dynamics, obedience, dark ritual; style notes: low-key lighting, high contrast, crowded composition, static framing

A dark, crowded outdoor scene with multiple figures visible under low lighting. A voice speaks lines including 'Oh, my God' and 'Come,' while another mentions a 'rich master' who 'fed me.'

“Oh, my God.” 26:34 · “Come.” 26:49 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 26:42 (passage 26:17–27:07); US record: No renewal found

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