Forest

29:45–30:23 Registered 1932

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 3 quotes checked against the transcript; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

30:04

Play from 29:45 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 69 · shots 218–218. 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
Also said: “so” 30:20
Seen: gnarled trees [frame:1], silhouetted shapes [frame:1]
Interpretation: Model opinion, not evidence: mood: eerie; themes: isolation, uncertainty; style notes: high-contrast black-and-white, silhouetted composition, low-key lighting

A single frame shows a dark, silhouetted outdoor scene with gnarled trees and indistinct shapes under a dim sky. No people are visible, and the transcript contains only fragmented, unrelated speech.

“I'm going to go to the next one.” 29:55 · “so” 30:15 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 30:04 (passage 29:45–30:23); US record: No renewal found

Permalink: always the current cut
Permalink to this version: warns if the beats are recut later
Card image: https://publicreel.org/cards/moment/white_zombie/b121.png
Figure for a newsletter or page: <figure><a href="https://publicreel.org/moment/white_zombie/b121"><img src="https://publicreel.org/atlas-img/white_zombie/0218.webp" alt="Frame from White Zombie (1932) at 30:04 (passage 29:45–30:23); US record: No renewal found" width="640"></a><figcaption>White Zombie (1932), 29:45–30:23. Internet Archive copy white_zombie; US record: No renewal found. Via Public Reel.</figcaption></figure>
Cite: Public Reel, "White Zombie (1932), 29:45–30:23", https://publicreel.org/moment/white_zombie/b121, from Internet Archive item white_zombie, retrieved 6 September 2026.

Forest

Evidence and details

The record

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