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White Zombie · Beat 204 · permalink

Private office

53:06–54:13 Registered 1932

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 2 quotes checked against the transcript; 2 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 53:3353:33Frame at 54:0654:06

Play from 53:06 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 126 · shots 334–335. 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 formal suit, thin build, intense expression visible, audible
  • person in light-colored garment, partially visible, seated across table visible
Seen happening
  • Man p1 holds a glass and speaks while seated at a table. [frame:1]
  • Man p1 gestures with hands while speaking to p2 across the table. [frame:2]
Seen
glass, ornate table, carved chair, dark drapes
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and conspiratorial; themes: power dynamics, secrecy, manipulation; style notes: high-contrast lighting, static medium shots, heavy use of shadow and ornate set design

A man in dark formal wear sits at a table with another person, holding a glass and speaking. The setting is dimly lit with ornate furniture, suggesting an interior room with heavy decor.

“You see, you are the first man to know what is happening.” 53:10 · “You were a few to take that. Once. I remember. Well, well. We understand each other better now.” 53:38 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 53:33 (passage 53:06–54:13); US record: No renewal found

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