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White Zombie · Beat 192 · permalink

Private office

50:46–51:35 Registered 1932

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 50:5150:51Frame at 51:1551:15

Play from 50:46 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 116 · shots 320–321. 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 a white gown, seated, with a large ruffled collar and a headpiece visible
  • maid in dark uniform with white apron and cap, standing, holding a tray visible
  • maid in dark uniform with white apron and cap, standing near a doorway visible
Also said
“Amen.” 51:10 · “I can't! I can't! So much. It's your hand.” 51:11
Seen
candelabra [frame:1], table with lace tablecloth [frame:1], tray [frame:2], arched doorway [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and ritualistic; themes: dominance, ritual, distress; style notes: static medium shots, high-contrast lighting, theatrical staging with props and costumes

A woman in a white gown sits while two maids in dark uniforms and white aprons stand nearby in a dimly lit room with arched architecture and candelabras. One maid speaks, and the seated woman reacts with distress, saying she cannot do something because of the other's hand.

“I'm going to go.” 50:47 · “So” 50:55 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 50:51 (passage 50:46–51:35); US record: No renewal found

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