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White Zombie · Beat 134 · permalink

Living room

37:16–38:47 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 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 37:4037:40Frame at 38:2638:26

Play from 37:16 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 78 · shots 234–235. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
living_room (living room, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in formal tuxedo, dark hair, medium build visible, audible
  • woman in light-colored gown, blonde curled hair, pale complexion visible
Seen happening
  • A man stands beside a grand piano while a woman sits at it, both visible in a dimly lit room. [frame:1]
  • The man and woman are shown in close-up, the man speaking with urgency, the woman staring blankly. [frame:2]
Also said
“But the soul is gone.” 38:38 · “empty, staring iron.” 38:43
Seen
grand piano, ornate chair, tuxedo, formal gown
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and eerie; themes: loss of soul, emotional distress, formal setting contrasted with inner turmoil; style notes: high-contrast lighting, static medium and close-up shots, theatrical framing

A man and a woman are in a dimly lit room with a grand piano; the man speaks urgently while the woman looks on with a blank expression. The transcript includes fragmented lines suggesting distress and loss, with no clear names or time established.

“Oh, my God.” 38:02 · “I was mad.” 38:21 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 37:40 (passage 37:16–38:47); US record: No renewal found

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