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White Zombie · Beat 175 · permalink

Forest

45:33–45:53 Registered 1932

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 3 quotes checked against the transcript; 5 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 45:3645:36Frame at 45:4145:41Frame at 45:4545:45Frame at 45:5245:52

Play from 45:33 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 106 · shots 292–297. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
forest (forest, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man wearing a wide-brimmed hat, light shirt, and vest; adjusting his hat visible
  • man wearing a hat and patterned vest; standing and watching p1 visible
  • man on horseback, wearing a hat and light shirt visible
  • man on horseback, wearing a hat and light shirt visible
  • man leading cattle, wearing a hat and light shirt visible
Seen happening
  • A man adjusts his hat while another watches. [frame:1]
  • Several men on horseback and one leading cattle are shown in a wooded area. [frame:3]
  • A man on horseback looks off-camera. [frame:4]
Also said
“We got a hard day before this. All right.” 45:50
Seen
hats [frame:1], horses [frame:3], cattle [frame:3], trees [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and anticipatory; themes: preparation, rural labor, group movement; style notes: black-and-white, medium and wide shots, natural outdoor lighting, period costume

Two men in hats are shown in a wooded area; one adjusts his hat while the other watches. A wider shot reveals several men on horseback and one leading cattle. One man remains on horseback, looking off-camera. No names are spoken.

“I need to do it.” 45:34 · “I don't know.” 45:35 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 45:36 (passage 45:33–45:53); US record: No renewal found

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