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White Zombie · Beat 182 · permalink

Field

48:54–49:04 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; 3 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 48:5948:59

Play from 48:54 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 108 · shots 309–309. 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
  • light-colored clothing, bending over visible
  • lying on ground, wearing hat visible
  • standing, holding staff, wearing dark robe visible
Seen happening
  • A person in light clothing bends over another person lying on rocky ground. [frame:1]
  • A third figure stands nearby holding a staff. [frame:1]
Seen
staff, hat, rocky ground
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: rescue attempt, outdoor peril, mysterious figure; style notes: high-contrast black-and-white, static medium shot, dramatic lighting emphasizing shadows on rocky terrain

A person in light clothing bends over another person lying on rocky ground, while a third figure stands nearby holding a staff. The scene is outdoors on a rocky slope, and a line is spoken about going up to see what can be done.

“Let me go up and see what I can do.” 48:57 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 48:59 (passage 48:54–49:04); US record: No renewal found

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