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White Zombie · Beat 189 · permalink

Rocky slope

50:25–50:37 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; 1 name checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 50:3150:31

Play from 50:25 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 113 · shots 317–317. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
rocky slope (other, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • Bradley (named at t:50:28): man, light-colored long-sleeve shirt and pants, medium build, holding a rope or whip visible
Seen happening
  • A man stands on a rocky slope holding a rope or whip. [frame:1]
Seen
rope or whip [frame:1], rocky slope [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense, mysterious; themes: isolation, command, nighttime peril; style notes: high-contrast black-and-white, static medium shot, dramatic lighting on figure against dark background

A man in light clothing stands on a rocky slope at night, holding a rope or whip; the name 'Bradley' is spoken. The scene is outdoors, with no interior elements visible.

“Bradley. Bradley.” 50:28 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 50:31 (passage 50:25–50:37); US record: No renewal found

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