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White Zombie · Beat 208 · permalink

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55:01–55:16 Registered 1932

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

Frame at 55:0455:04Frame at 55:0855:08Frame at 55:1355:13

Play from 55:01 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 129 · shots 339–341. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
other (other, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man, dark formal suit, slicked hair, thin mustache visible
  • man, white suit, dark hair, appears distressed visible
Seen happening
  • A man in a dark suit holds a glass and looks at a pile of white powder on a table. [frame:2]
  • A man in a white suit covers his face with one hand and extends the other toward a painting. [frame:3]
Seen
grand piano, candelabra, glass, pile of white powder, Gothic arches and stained glass windows, painting
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and ominous; themes: supernatural, distress, ritual; style notes: high-contrast lighting, static camera, Gothic architecture, theatrical staging

A man in dark formal wear sits at a table with a glass and a powder pile, while another man in a white suit reacts dramatically near a candelabra and painting. The setting is a large, dimly lit hall with Gothic architecture and a grand piano.

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 55:04 (passage 55:01–55:16); US record: No renewal found

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