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White Zombie · Beat 193 · permalink

Stone stairs outdoors

51:35–51:46 Registered 1932

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks flagged: visible event not seen. 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 51:3751:37Frame at 51:4351:43

Play from 51:35 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 116 · shots 322–323. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
stone_stairs_outdoors (other, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • figure in light clothing, seen from behind, descending stairs visible
  • woman in white gown, standing before mirror visible
  • woman in dark dress, standing near mirror visible
Seen happening
  • A figure walks down stone steps outdoors. [frame:1]
  • A woman in white stands before a mirror in a room with another woman nearby. [frame:2]
Seen
stone stairs [frame:1], mirror [frame:2], dressing table [frame:2], arched doorway [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: somber, mysterious; themes: isolation, reflection, nighttime descent; style notes: high-contrast lighting, static framing, theatrical composition

A figure descends stone steps outdoors at night; inside, a woman in white stands before a mirror in a dimly lit room. No names or events are spoken in the transcript for this beat.

“I” 51:43 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 51:37 (passage 51:35–51:46); US record: No renewal found

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