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White Zombie · Beat 209 · permalink

Private office

55:16–55:43 Registered 1932

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 1 quote checked against the transcript; 4 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 55:1855:18Frame at 55:2755:27Frame at 55:3455:34Frame at 55:4255:42

Play from 55:16 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 129 · shots 342–347. 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 in dark formal coat and white shirt, seated at table visible
  • man in dark formal coat and white shirt, standing beside table visible
  • man in light shirt, seated at table visible
  • man lying down, eyes closed, wearing light shirt visible
Seen happening
  • A man in formal attire sits at a table with a glass and a candle. [frame:1]
  • A man stands beside a seated man at a table. [frame:2]
  • A large gothic hall with a piano and chairs is shown. [frame:3]
  • A man lies with his eyes closed. [frame:4]
Seen
candle, glass, ornate chair, piano, gothic arches
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: ominous; themes: ritual, control, surrender; style notes: high-contrast lighting, static framing, gothic architecture, formal attire

A man in formal attire speaks while seated at a table; another man stands beside him. The scene cuts to a large, gothic-style hall with a piano and then to a close-up of a man lying down with his eyes closed. No names are spoken in the transcript.

“I'm going to go.” 55:17 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 55:18 (passage 55:16–55:43); US record: No renewal found

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