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White Zombie · Beat 223 · permalink

Hall

59:41–1:00:13 Registered 1932

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 2 quotes checked against the transcript; 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 59:4259:42Frame at 59:4959:49Frame at 1:00:021:00:02Frame at 1:00:101:00:10

Play from 59:41 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 130 · shots 389–399. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
hall (other, interior) evidence: frame:3
People
  • woman, light-colored robe, arms outstretched visible
  • man, light shirt, dark hair, leaning forward visible
  • person seated at table, back to camera visible
Seen happening
  • A woman stands with arms outstretched in a hall. [frame:1]
  • A man leans forward at a table. [frame:2]
  • A wide shot shows the hall with a piano, chairs, and people. [frame:3]
  • The scene remains in the hall with people seated and standing. [frame:4]
Seen
robe [frame:1], table [frame:2], grand piano [frame:3], chairs [frame:3], large windows [frame:3], staircase [frame:3]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: dramatic; themes: ritual, confrontation, mystery; style notes: high-contrast black-and-white, gothic architecture, static wide shots, theatrical staging

A woman in a white robe stands with arms outstretched in a large, gothic hall while a man in a light shirt leans forward at a table. The hall contains a grand piano, chairs, and large windows, and another person is visible seated at a table in the background.

“I don't know.” 59:41 · “Come on.” 60:00 automatic transcript, may be wrong

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 59:42 (passage 59:41–1:00:13); US record: No renewal found

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