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White Zombie · Beat 166 · permalink

Private office

43:26–43:41 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 43:3343:33

Play from 43:26 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 100 · shots 281–281. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
(private office, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in dark suit, gesturing with right hand visible
  • Charlie (named at t:43:32): man in dark suit, standing still, facing p1 visible
Seen happening
  • One man gestures toward another while speaking. [frame:1]
Seen
stone wall [frame:1], staircase [frame:1], candelabra [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: confrontation, naming; style notes: static medium shot, high contrast lighting, shadowed background

Two men stand in a dimly lit interior with stone walls and a staircase; one gestures while speaking the name 'Charlie'. No other events or objects are clearly visible or mentioned in the supplied frames and transcript.

“Charlie!” 43:32 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 43:33 (passage 43:26–43:41); US record: No renewal found

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