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White Zombie · Beat 137 · permalink

Private office

39:22–39:24 Registered 1932

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 39:2339:23

Play from 39:22 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 80 · shots 240–240. 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
  • man in dark tuxedo with white shirt and bow tie, medium build, dark hair visible
  • woman with blonde hair, wearing a light-colored dress with dark trim and a sash visible
Seen
tuxedo [frame:1], light dress with sash [frame:1], dark wooden furniture [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: formal attire, confrontation, dramatic lighting; style notes: high-contrast lighting, static medium shot, theatrical staging

A man in a tuxedo and a woman in a light dress stand in a dimly lit interior space. No dialogue or action is visible in the single frame.

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 39:23 (passage 39:22–39:24); US record: No renewal found

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