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White Zombie · Beat 150 · permalink

Private office

41:05–41:27 Registered 1932

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 1 quote checked against the transcript; 2 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 41:1641:16

Play from 41:05 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 90 · shots 257–257. 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 suit, medium build, short dark hair, facing right visible
  • man in dark suit with lapel pin, medium build, short dark hair, facing left visible
Seen happening
  • One man speaks to another while standing indoors near a carved wooden structure. [frame:1]
Seen
carved wooden structure, dark suits, lapel pin
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: confrontation, ritual, power; style notes: static medium shot, high contrast lighting, ornate set design

Two men in dark suits stand indoors near a carved wooden structure; one faces the other while speaking. The setting appears to be a dimly lit interior with ornate architectural details.

“to the future.” 41:24 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 41:16 (passage 41:05–41:27); US record: No renewal found

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