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White Zombie · Beat 230 · permalink

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1:01:28–1:01:35 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; 5 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:01:301:01:30Frame at 1:01:331:01:33

Play from 1:01:28 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 133 · shots 411–412. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
other (other, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • Man in dark formal coat and white vest, standing, facing p2 visible
  • Man in light-colored shirt, standing, facing p1 visible
  • Woman seated, wearing light dress, visible on left visible
  • Figure in dark coat, standing on stairs in background visible
  • Figure in light coat, walking up stairs in background visible
Seen happening
  • Two men stand facing each other in conversation. [frame:1]
  • One man gestures with his hand while speaking to the other. [frame:2]
  • A woman sits motionless to the left of the frame. [frame:1]
  • Figures are visible on stone stairs in the background. [frame:1]
Seen
stone stairs, rocky outcrop, foliage, formal coat, light shirt
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and theatrical; themes: confrontation, mystery, hierarchical positioning; style notes: high-contrast lighting, static medium shots, staged composition with figures arranged on stairs and foreground

Two men converse in a dimly lit, rocky outdoor setting while other figures stand on stairs in the background. A seated woman is visible to the side, and one man gestures during the exchange.

“You, my friend, they are angels of...” 61:30 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 1:01:30 (passage 1:01:28–1:01:35); US record: No renewal found

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