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White Zombie · Beat 224 · permalink

Cliffside

1:00:13–1:00:36 Registered 1932

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 1 quote checked against the transcript; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 2 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:00:161:00:16Frame at 1:00:201:00:20Frame at 1:00:321:00:32Frame at 1:00:351:00:35

Play from 1:00:13 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech; cut falls inside a spoken line: no pause was available without exceeding the length cap. Sequence 130 · shots 400–404. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
cliffside (other, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • woman, wearing a long white gown, dark hair styled up visible
  • man, wearing light-colored clothing, visible from behind and above on steps visible
Seen happening
  • A woman in a white gown stands at the top of stone steps. [frame:1]
  • The woman runs down the steps toward the camera. [frame:2]
  • The man appears behind the woman on the steps, following her. [frame:3]
  • The woman turns away from the camera, facing the sea with arms outstretched. [frame:4]
Seen
stone steps [frame:1], white gown [frame:2], turbulent sea [frame:4]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: desperate and dramatic; themes: desperation, pursuit, isolation; style notes: high-contrast lighting, theatrical framing, static camera on wide shots

A woman in a white gown runs down stone steps toward the camera while a man follows her from above; she then turns away, facing a turbulent sea. The transcript includes a distressed voice saying 'I found you! I'm alive! I'm dying!' at 60:30.

“I... I... I found you! I'm alive! I'm dying! I'm dying here!” 60:30 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 1:00:16 (passage 1:00:13–1:00:36); US record: No renewal found

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