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White Zombie · Beat 147 · permalink

Private office

40:21–40:29 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 40:2540:25

Play from 40:21 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 88 · shots 252–252. 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 attire, medium build, seen from back and side visible
  • man in dark formal attire, medium build, facing p1, profile visible visible
Seen
stone staircase with ornate railings [frame:1], table with small objects (possibly bottles or candles) [frame:1], gothic-style door and wall carvings [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: ominous; themes: confrontation, mystery, gothic horror; style notes: static medium shot, high-contrast lighting, shadowy gothic architecture

Two men stand in a dimly lit, gothic-style interior with a stone staircase and ornate railings. One man faces the other, who is partially turned away, near a table with objects on it.

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 40:25 (passage 40:21–40:29); US record: No renewal found

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