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White Zombie · Beat 125 · permalink

Private office

33:17–34:15 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; 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 33:4633:46

Play from 33:17 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 72 · shots 223–223. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
private_office (private office, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • older man, balding, wearing a patterned robe visible
Seen happening
  • A man in a robe stands near a fireplace, speaking. [frame:1]
Also said
“Oh, the whole thing has me confused. I just can't understand it.” 33:55 · “I don't train you.” 34:01
Seen
fireplace [frame:1], patterned robe [frame:1], shelf with objects [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and mysterious; themes: supernatural, doubt, confusion; style notes: static medium shot, high-contrast lighting, shadowy interior, period costume

A man in a patterned robe stands in a dimly lit room with a fireplace, speaking about a dead man walking. The dialogue suggests confusion and disbelief among characters regarding supernatural events.

“You don't believe that, do you?” 33:19 · “Say, there's been lots of people that've been for a mounshead that came alive again in this year. Now, if nature can play pranks like that...” 33:23 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 33:46 (passage 33:17–34:15); US record: No renewal found

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