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White Zombie · Beat 241 · permalink

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1:01:50–1:01:52 Registered 1932

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 3 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 1:01:511:01:51

Play from 1:01:50 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 141 · shots 423–423. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
(other, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in dark coat and hat, seen from side, standing on left visible
  • man in light-colored long coat, facing right, gesturing with right hand visible
  • man in light shirt and vest, standing higher on stone steps, looking down visible
Seen
stone steps [frame:1], rock walls [frame:1], dark coat and hat [frame:1], light-colored long coat [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and shadowy; themes: confrontation, hierarchical positioning; style notes: low-key lighting with strong contrasts, medium shot framing three figures on a vertical staircase, creating depth and hierarchy

Three men stand on stone steps in a dimly lit, cavernous space with rock walls. One man in a light coat gestures while facing another man in dark clothing; a third man stands behind them on the stairs.

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 1:01:51 (passage 1:01:50–1:01:52); US record: No renewal found

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