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White Zombie · Beat 222 · permalink

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59:22–59:41 Registered 1932

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 2 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 59:2359:23Frame at 59:2759:27Frame at 59:3659:36Frame at 59:3959:39

Play from 59:22 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 130 · shots 384–388. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
other (other, interior) evidence: frame:2
People
  • Woman with short, curled hair, wearing a white, beaded gown; appears young adult. visible
  • Figure lying prone, wearing light-colored clothing; gender and age indistinct. visible
Seen happening
  • A woman stands beside a prone figure in a dim room. [frame:2]
  • Close-up of the woman's face, showing a neutral expression. [frame:3]
  • Close-up of hands holding a small, indistinct object. [frame:4]
Seen
white gown, prone figure, small object
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: ominous and ritualistic; themes: ritual, suspense, mystery; style notes: High-contrast lighting, tight close-ups, and static framing create a claustrophobic, theatrical atmosphere.

A woman in a white gown stands near a prone figure in a dim, stone-walled room; close-ups show her face and hands holding a small object. 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 59:23 (passage 59:22–59:41); US record: No renewal found

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