Public Reel

White Zombie · Beat 142 · permalink

Private office

39:37–39:50 Registered 1932

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 2 quotes checked against the transcript; 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 39:4339:43

Play from 39:37 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 84 · shots 245–245. 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 formal suit, clean-shaven, medium build visible
  • woman with light hair, wearing a patterned dress with lace and a fitted bodice visible
  • man in dark suit with curly hair, medium build visible
Seen happening
  • A woman stands between two men in a stone-walled room. [frame:1]
Seen
stone wall with arched alcove, candles on a table, dark formal suits, patterned dress with lace
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and ritualistic; themes: control, supernatural negotiation, triangular power dynamics; style notes: static medium shot, high-contrast lighting, theatrical staging with symmetrical framing

A woman stands between two men in a dimly lit interior with stone architecture; one man speaks about bringing someone back. The scene is static and framed to emphasize the triangular arrangement of the characters.

“You must bring her back.” 39:44 · “I'm just right.” 39:46 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.

Share

Paste the permalink anywhere that shows link previews and it carries the frame, the time and the finding. The card image can be saved and used with a credit.

Frame from White Zombie (1932) at 39:43 (passage 39:37–39:50); US record: No renewal found

Permalink
always the current cut
Permalink to this version
warns if the beats are recut later
Card image
https://publicreel.org/cards/moment/white_zombie/b142.png
Figure for a newsletter or page
Cite