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White Zombie · Beat 115 · permalink

Bedroom

29:16–29:25 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 29:2129:21

Play from 29:16 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 63 · shots 210–210. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
bedroom (bedroom, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • indistinct figures in shadow, no discernible features visible
Seen happening
  • A bed with patterned bedding is visible in a dark room with shadowy figures in the background. [frame:1]
Seen
bed with patterned bedding [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: dark and ominous; themes: suspense, uncertainty; style notes: low-key lighting, high contrast, static framing

A dimly lit interior shows a bed with patterned bedding and indistinct figures in the background. No names, events, or objects beyond the bed and shadows are identifiable from the frame or transcript.

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 29:21 (passage 29:16–29:25); US record: No renewal found

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