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White Zombie · Beat 181 · permalink

Field

48:18–48:54 Registered 1932

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 2 quotes checked against the transcript; 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 2 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 48:2648:26Frame at 48:4448:44

Play from 48:18 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 108 · shots 307–308. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
field (field, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in light-colored shirt and trousers, standing, medium build visible
  • man lying on ground, wearing hat and light shirt, appears unconscious or injured visible
  • older man, balding, in light shirt, leaning over p2, hands on p2's shoulders visible
Seen happening
  • A man stands near a rocky slope where another man lies on the ground. [frame:1]
  • An older man leans over the man on the ground, holding his shoulders. [frame:2]
Seen
hat, rocky slope, dark cloth or tarp
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: urgent and distressed; themes: distress, helplessness, water as a threat or symbol; style notes: high-contrast black-and-white, medium shots, static camera, dramatic lighting emphasizing faces and gestures

A man in light clothing stands near a rocky slope where another man lies on the ground; a third man leans over him. The transcript includes fragmented, urgent speech, including a plea for help and a reference to water.

“Just towards the air set.” 48:24 · “Now the water always comes over the house of the living day. Madeline, is she there? I must go. No, no, no, no. You, my boy, please, please, my down-to-back. Please. Please, please, please, please. You're strong in the water.” 48:27 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 48:26 (passage 48:18–48:54); US record: No renewal found

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