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White Zombie · Beat 199 · permalink

Private office

52:10–52:14 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 52:1252:12

Play from 52:10 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 121 · shots 329–329. 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
  • man, dark hair, wearing a light-colored long-sleeved shirt, seated visible
Seen happening
  • A man writes or draws at a table with a pen. [frame:1]
Seen
pen [frame:1], table [frame:1], ornate chair [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: focused, solitary; themes: isolation, concentration; style notes: static medium shot, high-contrast lighting, dark background with ornate details, typical of early 1930s horror film aesthetics

A man in a light shirt sits at a table, leaning forward and writing or drawing with a pen. The setting appears to be an interior room with dark, ornate furniture visible in the background.

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 52:12 (passage 52:10–52:14); US record: No renewal found

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