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White Zombie · Beat 219 · permalink

Private office

58:25–58:43 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 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 58:2758:27Frame at 58:3058:30Frame at 58:3458:34Frame at 58:4058:40

Play from 58:25 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 130 · shots 372–375. 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-adult, dark hair, wearing a light-colored shirt, seated at a table visible
  • man, mid-adult, slicked-back hair, wearing a dark formal coat and white shirt, standing visible
  • figure, gender unclear, wearing a long white robe, standing over a body visible
Seen happening
  • A man sits at a table with a glass in front of him. [frame:1]
  • A man in formal wear stands and looks forward. [frame:2]
  • The seated man looks up with an alarmed expression. [frame:3]
  • A robed figure stands over a body lying on a stone slab in a chamber with carved walls. [frame:4]
Seen
glass, table, ornate chair, stone slab, carved walls
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and ominous; themes: power dynamics, ritual, suspense; style notes: high-contrast black-and-white lighting, static medium shots, theatrical framing

A man in a light shirt sits at a table, then looks up in alarm as another man in formal wear appears. A figure in a white robe stands over a prone body in a dim, carved chamber. No dialogue is provided for this segment.

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 58:27 (passage 58:25–58:43); US record: No renewal found

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