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White Zombie · Beat 198 · permalink

Large hall

52:06–52:10 Registered 1932

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 1 name checked for a spoken or on-screen source; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 52:0852:08

Play from 52:06 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 120 · shots 328–328. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
large hall (other, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in light-colored shirt and dark trousers, standing visible
Seen
Gothic window [frame:1], stone pillar [frame:1], staircase [frame:1], table [frame:1], chairs [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: somber and imposing; themes: decay, mystery, isolation; style notes: static wide shot, high contrast lighting, Gothic architectural framing

A single shot shows a large, dimly lit interior with Gothic architecture, including tall arched windows and pillars. A man stands near a table in the center, with furniture and a staircase visible.

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 52:08 (passage 52:06–52:10); US record: No renewal found

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