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White Zombie · Beat 185 · permalink

Private office

49:23–49:59 Registered 1932

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 2 quotes 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 49:3349:33Frame at 49:5149:51

Play from 49:23 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 110 · shots 312–313. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
private_office (private office, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • woman in dark dress and white apron, wearing a cap, standing visible
  • Sam (named at t:49:27): woman in dark dress and white apron, wearing a cap, standing visible, audible
Seen happening
  • Two women in maid uniforms stand in a room with furniture. [frame:1]
  • A rocky cliffside with a distant structure is shown. [frame:2]
Seen
maid uniforms [frame:1], table with cloth [frame:1], chair [frame:1], bed with cover [frame:1], rocky cliff [frame:2], distant structure [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: melancholic and theatrical; themes: servitude, emotional declaration, gothic atmosphere; style notes: high-contrast black-and-white lighting, static medium shots, period costume, dramatic set design

Two women in maid uniforms stand in a dimly lit room with furniture; a separate shot shows a dark, rocky cliffside with a distant structure. One woman is addressed as 'Sam' in the transcript, and the speaker expresses happiness.

“You're absolutely wonderful, Sam.” 49:27 · “I never remember anything in my life that you know because I'm happy.” 49:31 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 49:33 (passage 49:23–49:59); US record: No renewal found

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