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White Zombie · Beat 200 · permalink

Private office

52:14–52:47 Registered 1932

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 3 quotes checked against the transcript; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 52:3052:30

Play from 52:14 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 122 · shots 330–330. 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, formal attire (tuxedo), thin build, dark hair, standing visible
  • woman, lying down, covered in white fabric, face partially visible visible
Seen happening
  • A man stands beside a table where a woman lies covered in white fabric. [frame:1]
Also said
“Can you feel it, dear me?” 52:44
Seen
table [frame:1], white fabric covering woman [frame:1], heavy drapery [frame:1], ornate chair [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: eerie, suspenseful; themes: supernatural, control, vulnerability; style notes: static medium shot, high contrast lighting, heavy shadows, theatrical set design

A man in formal attire stands beside a table where a woman lies covered in white fabric; the setting is dimly lit with heavy drapery. A line is spoken asking if the woman can feel something, but no names are given.

“So,” 52:15 · “so” 52:21 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 52:30 (passage 52:14–52:47); US record: No renewal found

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