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White Zombie · Beat 226 · permalink

Forest

1:00:57–1:01:07 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; 0 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:00:581:00:58Frame at 1:01:031:01:03

Play from 1:00:57 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 130 · shots 406–407. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
forest (forest, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • woman, light-colored dress, short wavy hair, fair complexion visible
  • man, light-colored shirt, dark hair, medium build visible
Seen happening
  • The man leans close to the woman's face, appearing to speak to her. [frame:1]
  • The man and woman face each other closely, both looking intently. [frame:2]
Seen
light-colored dress, light-colored shirt, trees and foliage
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and concerned; themes: confrontation, mystery, emotional distress; style notes: close-up framing, high-contrast lighting, black-and-white film stock, dramatic shadows

A man and a woman stand close together in a dim, outdoor setting; the man leans toward the woman as if speaking urgently. The transcript includes the line 'What have they done to you?' spoken during this moment.

“What have they done to you?” 61:00 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 1:00:58 (passage 1:00:57–1:01:07); US record: No renewal found

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