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White Zombie · Beat 156 · permalink

Private office

42:24–42:33 Registered 1932

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 42:2542:25Frame at 42:2842:28Frame at 42:3142:31

Play from 42:24 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 92 · shots 269–271. 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
  • older man, balding, wearing a dark suit and bow tie visible
  • man with dark hair, goatee, and dark suit visible
Seen happening
  • A man in a suit raises his arm dramatically in a room with a fireplace. [frame:1]
  • A close-up shows a man with a goatee looking forward. [frame:2]
  • The first man is again shown gesturing with his arm raised. [frame:3]
Seen
fireplace [frame:1], heavy drapes [frame:1], candelabra [frame:1], armchair [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: dramatic and ominous; themes: power, menace; style notes: high-contrast lighting, static camera, theatrical framing

A man in a dark suit and bow tie gestures dramatically in a dimly lit room with heavy drapes and a fireplace. A second man with a goatee and dark suit is shown in a close-up, looking directly at the camera.

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 42:25 (passage 42:24–42:33); US record: No renewal found

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