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White Zombie · Beat 194 · permalink

Garden with stone archway

51:46–51:53 Registered 1932

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 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 51:4951:49

Play from 51:46 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 116 · shots 324–324. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
garden with stone archway (other, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man wearing light-colored long-sleeved shirt and trousers, viewed from behind visible
Seen happening
  • A man walks away from the camera through a stone archway. [frame:1]
Seen
stone archway [frame:1], hedge or low shrubbery [frame:1], tree trunk or large column [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: somber, mysterious; themes: isolation, journey, gothic setting; style notes: high-contrast black and white, static medium shot, rear view of figure emphasizing isolation

A man in light-colored clothing walks away from the camera through a stone archway in a garden-like setting. The scene is shot in black and white with high contrast lighting.

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 51:49 (passage 51:46–51:53); US record: No renewal found

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