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White Zombie · Beat 144 · permalink

Private office

40:06–40:12 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 40:0940:09

Play from 40:06 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 85 · shots 249–249. 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, dark hair slicked back, wearing a dark suit and tie, medium build, appears middle-aged visible
  • woman, blonde wavy hair, wearing a light-colored dress with a necklace, appears young adult visible
Seen
dark suit [frame:1], light-colored dress [frame:1], necklace [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and intimate; themes: power dynamics, romantic tension; style notes: close two-shot, high-contrast lighting, static camera, period costume

A man and a woman stand close together in a dimly lit interior; the man holds the woman's hand and looks down at it while she gazes at him. No dialogue or on-screen text is present in this beat.

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 40:09 (passage 40:06–40:12); US record: No renewal found

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