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White Zombie · Beat 210 · permalink

Private office

55:43–56:02 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 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 55:4955:49Frame at 55:5855:58

Play from 55:43 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 129 · shots 348–349. 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, middle-aged, thin face, dark hair, goatee, wearing formal black tailcoat and white bow tie visible
Seen happening
  • man in formal wear stands facing camera [frame:1]
  • close-up of gloved hands holding a small object [frame:2]
Seen
formal tailcoat [frame:1], white bow tie [frame:1], white gloves [frame:2], ring on finger [frame:2], small object held in hands [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: solemn, ritualistic; themes: ritual, control, formality; style notes: static medium shot followed by tight close-up; high-contrast lighting; formal costume suggests ceremony or control

A man in formal wear is shown in a medium shot, followed by a close-up of his gloved hands holding a small object. No dialogue or on-screen text is present in this beat.

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 55:49 (passage 55:43–56:02); US record: No renewal found

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