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White Zombie · Beat 216 · permalink

Private office

57:38–57:51 Registered 1932

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 57:4157:41Frame at 57:4657:46Frame at 57:4957:49

Play from 57:38 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 130 · shots 360–362. 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 suit with white shirt and bow tie, standing visible
  • man in light-colored shirt, seated, gesturing with hands visible
  • blurry, indistinct human-like figure, possibly female, with no discernible clothing or features visible
Seen
table [frame:1], ornate chair [frame:1], window with panes [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: eerie and suspenseful; themes: supernatural, confrontation, mystery; style notes: high-contrast lighting, static framing, use of blur to suggest supernatural presence

Two men are in a dimly lit room with a table; one stands in formal wear while the other sits in a light shirt. A blurry, ghostly figure appears in a separate shot.

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 57:41 (passage 57:38–57:51); US record: No renewal found

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