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White Zombie · Beat 177 · permalink

Forest

46:09–46:50 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; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 46:2946:29

Play from 46:09 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 107 · shots 299–299. 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
  • older man, wearing a wide-brimmed hat and light-colored shirt, holding a bundle visible
  • man wearing a pith helmet and light jacket, standing facing p1 visible
Seen happening
  • Two men stand facing each other in a wooded area. [frame:1]
Also said
“It is all the dying of the living dead.” 46:45
Seen
bundle held by p1 [frame:1], pith helmet [frame:1], wide-brimmed hat [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: ominous; themes: undead, mystery, journey; style notes: static medium shot, high-contrast lighting, period costume

Two men stand outdoors in a wooded area, one holding a bundle; dialogue references people going to the sea and mountain, and the dying of the living dead. No names are spoken, and no on-screen text is visible.

“to see old people all the way to the sea.” 46:29 · “- Did somebody go here? - People all the way to the mountain. - Why? - Because” 46:36 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 46:29 (passage 46:09–46:50); US record: No renewal found

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