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White Zombie · Beat 179 · permalink

Ruined tower on rocky slope

47:19–48:06 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 47:2647:26Frame at 47:4947:49

Play from 47:19 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 108 · shots 302–303. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
ruined tower on rocky slope (other, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • light-colored long-sleeved shirt and trousers, kneeling, adult build visible
  • dark clothing, lying prone on ground, hat visible visible
Seen happening
  • A person in light clothing kneels beside a prone figure on a rocky slope. [frame:1]
  • The kneeling person leans over the prone figure. [frame:2]
Seen
ruined stone tower [frame:1], rocky slope [frame:1], hat [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: somber and desolate; themes: isolation, ruin, helplessness; style notes: high-contrast black-and-white, static wide shot, dramatic lighting emphasizing shadows and ruins

A figure in light clothing kneels beside a prone person on a rocky slope near a ruined tower under a cloudy sky. No names or dialogue are spoken in the supplied transcript lines.

“so” 47:22 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 47:26 (passage 47:19–48:06); US record: No renewal found

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