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White Zombie · Beat 221 · permalink

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59:01–59:22 Registered 1932

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 1 name checked for a spoken or on-screen source; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 59:0659:06Frame at 59:1259:12Frame at 59:1859:18

Play from 59:01 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 130 · shots 381–383. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
other (other, interior) evidence: frame:1, frame:2, frame:3
People
  • Woman with short, wavy light hair, wearing a light-colored dress with a dark circular emblem on the chest. visible
Seen
dark object held by woman [frame:1, frame:3], eyes [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: uncertain, suspenseful; themes: mystery, ritual, isolation; style notes: high-contrast lighting, tight close-ups, use of shadow and haze to obscure background

A woman in a light dress is shown in close-up, holding a dark object near her face; a subsequent frame shows a close-up of eyes in shadow; the final frame shows the woman again, holding the object to her mouth. 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 59:06 (passage 59:01–59:22); US record: No renewal found

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