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White Zombie · Beat 110 · permalink

Forest

27:44–28:22 Registered 1932

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; 2 names 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 28:0328:03

Play from 27:44 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 60 · shots 204–204. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
forest (forest, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in dark coat and hat, visible in profile visible, audible
  • man in dark coat, facing p1, partially lit visible, audible
Seen happening
  • Two men stand facing each other in darkness among foliage. [frame:1]
Also said
“This one. But what if they regain their soul?” 28:02 · “That's my friend.” 28:10
Seen
foliage, dark coats, hat
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and ominous; themes: power, soul, transformation; style notes: high-contrast lighting, tight two-shot, shadowy foliage framing

Two men stand facing each other in a dark, leafy outdoor setting. One speaks about execution and souls while the other responds briefly.

“I executioner. You are most executioner of me. I think so.” 27:45 · “Just as we change.” 27:58 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 28:03 (passage 27:44–28:22); US record: No renewal found

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