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White Zombie · Beat 217 · permalink

Private office

57:51–58:08 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; 0 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 57:5357:53Frame at 57:5657:56Frame at 57:5957:59Frame at 58:0458:04

Play from 57:51 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 130 · shots 363–366. 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, mid-30s, medium build, wearing a white shirt, seated visible
  • man, mid-30s, medium build, wearing formal black tailcoat and white bow tie, standing visible
  • woman, 20s-30s, slender, wearing a white dress with veil or shawl, standing visible
Seen happening
  • A man in a white shirt sits at a table holding a glass. [frame:1]
  • A man in formal wear stands in profile. [frame:2]
  • A woman in a white dress approaches the table where the two men are. [frame:3]
  • The seated man leans forward over the table as a hand reaches toward him. [frame:4]
Seen
{'item': 'ornate wooden chair', 'frame': 1}, {'item': 'glass with liquid', 'frame': 1}, {'item': 'table with objects', 'frame': 3}, {'item': 'formal tailcoat and bow tie', 'frame': 2}, {'item': 'white dress with veil', 'frame': 3}
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and formal; themes: social hierarchy, confrontation, ritual; style notes: static medium shots, high-contrast lighting, theatrical staging

A man in a white shirt sits at a table holding a glass while another man in formal wear stands nearby; a woman in a white dress enters and approaches the table. The seated man later leans forward over the table as a hand reaches toward him.

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 57:53 (passage 57:51–58:08); US record: No renewal found

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