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White Zombie · Beat 240 · permalink

Stone stairs

1:01:50–1:01:50 Registered 1932

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 4 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:01:501:01:50

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Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 141 · shots 422–422. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
stone stairs (other, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in light-colored shirt and trousers, standing on steps visible
  • man in dark coat and hat, facing p1 visible
  • man in dark clothing, standing higher on stairs visible
  • man in dark clothing, standing higher on stairs, partially obscured visible
Seen
stone stairs [frame:1], trees or vines [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: confrontation, hierarchical positioning; style notes: high-contrast black-and-white lighting, static medium shot, theatrical staging

A man in light clothing stands on stone steps facing another man in dark clothing; two other men are visible higher on the stairs. The setting appears to be an outdoor stone structure with trees or vines nearby.

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 1:01:50 (passage 1:01:50–1:01:50); US record: No renewal found

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