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White Zombie · Beat 170 · permalink

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44:32–44:43 Registered 1932

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 1 quote checked against the transcript; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 44:3644:36Frame at 44:4244:42

Play from 44:32 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 103 · shots 286–287. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
(other, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in dark suit, thin build, dark hair, standing visible
  • man in dark suit, heavier build, light hair, standing with hands clasped visible
Seen happening
  • One man gestures with his hand while speaking to another man. [frame:1]
  • A large bird is seen behind a window grille. [frame:2]
Seen
stone wall, window grille, large bird
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and mysterious; themes: supernatural, confinement, menacing presence; style notes: high-contrast lighting, static medium shots, gothic architecture, use of shadow and grille to frame the bird

Two men stand in a dimly lit interior with stone walls; one gestures while speaking. A large bird is seen behind a window grille in the next shot. No names are spoken, and no time of day or period is established.

“I'm going to go back to the next one.” 44:37 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 44:36 (passage 44:32–44:43); US record: No renewal found

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