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White Zombie · Beat 136 · permalink

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39:12–39:22 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; 1 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 39:1439:14Frame at 39:1939:19

Play from 39:12 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: cutting rhythm changes. Sequence 79 · shots 238–239. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
other (other, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in dark suit, thin build, dark hair, mustache, visible in two frames visible
Seen happening
  • A man stands on a stone staircase, holding the railing. [frame:1]
  • The man is shown in a closer view, looking upward with a slight smile. [frame:2]
Also said
“One that I delight to see.” 39:18 · “I fell.” 39:21
Seen
stone staircase with Gothic balustrade [frame:1], dark suit [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: dramatic and slightly ominous; themes: mystery, suspense, theatrical performance; style notes: high-contrast black-and-white lighting, medium and close-up shots, static camera, Gothic architectural detail

A man in a suit is shown on a stone staircase, first standing and then in a closer view looking upward. The transcript includes fragmented lines that do not clearly refer to the visual content or name the person.

“See what's this day and happen with him.” 39:12 · “He paints a charming picture for this.” 39:15 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 39:14 (passage 39:12–39:22); US record: No renewal found

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