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White Zombie · Beat 214 · permalink

Gothic hall

57:03–57:19 Registered 1932

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

Frame at 57:0657:06Frame at 57:1357:13Frame at 57:1857:18

Play from 57:03 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 130 · shots 355–357. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
gothic_hall (other, interior) evidence: frame:3
People
  • figure in white robe, face partially visible, standing in shadow visible
  • woman in long white gown, standing on balcony visible
  • two figures seated at a table in the hall, one standing nearby visible
Seen happening
  • A robed figure stands in shadow. [frame:1]
  • A woman in a white gown stands on a stone balcony. [frame:2]
  • A wide shot reveals a gothic hall with furniture and several people. [frame:3]
Seen
stone balcony [frame:2], gothic arches and windows [frame:3], furniture including chairs and a table [frame:3], white robe [frame:1], white gown [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: ominous and theatrical; themes: supernatural, isolation, ritual space; style notes: high-contrast lighting, static framing, gothic architecture, staged composition

A figure in a white robe stands in shadow, then a woman in a white gown appears on a stone balcony, followed by a wide shot of a gothic hall with furniture and people. No dialogue or on-screen text is present in these frames.

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 57:06 (passage 57:03–57:19); US record: No renewal found

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