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White Zombie · Beat 165 · permalink

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43:06–43:26 Registered 1932

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 6 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 43:1643:16

Play from 43:06 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 99 · shots 280–280. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
other (other, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in dark coat, seen from back, standing near steps visible
  • man in dark coat, standing near steps, facing away visible
  • man in dark coat, standing near steps, partially turned visible
  • man in dark coat, standing near steps, facing left visible
  • man in dark coat, standing near steps, facing right visible
  • man in dark coat, standing near table with candles, facing group visible
Seen
stone pillars [frame:1], staircase [frame:1], table with candles [frame:1], chairs [frame:1], candles [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: ominous; themes: supernatural, gathering, ritual; style notes: low-key lighting, high contrast, static wide shot, gothic architecture

A group of men in dark clothing stand in a dimly lit interior with stone pillars and a staircase. One man stands apart near a table with candles, while others gather near steps.

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 43:16 (passage 43:06–43:26); US record: No renewal found

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