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White Zombie · Beat 155 · permalink

Grand hall

42:00–42:24 Registered 1932

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 42:0242:02Frame at 42:0842:08Frame at 42:1842:18Frame at 42:2342:23

Play from 42:00 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 92 · shots 264–268. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
grand hall (other, interior) evidence: frame:4
People
  • man in tuxedo, dark hair, medium build visible, audible
  • Silver (named at t:42:20): man in dark suit, mustache, medium build visible, audible
  • man in dark suit, standing near staircase visible
Seen happening
  • A man in a tuxedo gestures and speaks urgently. [frame:1]
  • A man in a suit holds a glass and looks serious. [frame:2]
  • The same man in a suit smiles while holding a glass. [frame:3]
  • Three men stand in a grand hall; one holds a glass, another gestures. [frame:4]
Also said
“I have other plans for Mademoiselle. I am afraid to fight the grief. I have taken a place to you.” 42:04 · “Silver! Silver!” 42:20
Seen
tuxedo [frame:1], suit [frame:2], glass [frame:2], stone pillars [frame:4], staircase [frame:4], ornate chair [frame:4]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and ominous; themes: power struggle, menace, formal attire in a gothic setting; style notes: high-contrast lighting, static medium shots, theatrical staging

A man in a tuxedo speaks urgently in a dimly lit, ornate room with stone pillars and a staircase; another man in a suit holds a glass and smiles. The transcript includes a plea, a threat about 'Mademoiselle,' and a shouted name 'Silver.'

“Come on.” 42:01 · “What are you trying to do to me?” 42:02 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 42:02 (passage 42:00–42:24); US record: No renewal found

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