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White Zombie · Beat 123 · permalink

Cemetery

30:28–30:38 Registered 1932

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 1 quote checked against the transcript; 1 name checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 30:2930:29Frame at 30:3430:34

Play from 30:28 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 70 · shots 220–221. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
cemetery (other, exterior) evidence: frame:1
Time of day
night evidence: frame:1
People
  • man, light-colored suit, medium build, visible in profile visible
Seen happening
  • A man gestures toward a grave marker in a cemetery. [frame:1]
  • The man continues to gesture while standing among tombstones. [frame:2]
Seen
tombstones [frame:1], trees [frame:1], grave marker [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: eerie; themes: death, supernatural, ritual; style notes: high-contrast lighting, static medium shots, shadowed background

A man in light-colored clothing is visible in a dark, outdoor setting with tombstones and trees. He gestures toward a grave marker while standing among headstones, as described in the transcript line at 30:28.

“So” 30:28 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 30:29 (passage 30:28–30:38); US record: No renewal found

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