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White Zombie · Beat 178 · permalink

Forest

46:50–47:19 Registered 1932

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 46:5446:54Frame at 47:0947:09

Play from 46:50 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech; cut falls inside a spoken line: no pause was available without exceeding the length cap. Sequence 107 · shots 300–301. 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, loose shirt with fringes, and beads; appears older, heavyset visible
  • man wearing a light-colored pith helmet and light jacket; appears middle-aged, lean visible
Seen happening
  • A man on horseback leans toward another man standing beside him. [frame:1]
  • The two men continue to face each other in conversation. [frame:2]
Also said
“No.” 47:02 · “There is a needle to this man that is all murder, crime, all about what to do.” 47:04
Seen
horse [frame:1], wide-brimmed hat [frame:1], pith helmet [frame:1], beaded necklace [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and ominous; themes: moral conflict, accusation, power dynamics; style notes: static medium shots, high-contrast lighting, period costume

Two men converse outdoors in a wooded area; one is seated on a horse, the other stands beside him. The dialogue suggests a tense exchange about a man associated with murder and crime.

“- Do you think this is good?” 46:52 · “I am the only man that ever claims him there in life.” 46:54 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 46:54 (passage 46:50–47:19); US record: No renewal found

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