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White Zombie · Beat 245 · permalink

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1:02:25–1:02:49 Registered 1932

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 2 quotes checked against the transcript; 3 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 1:02:261:02:26Frame at 1:02:321:02:32Frame at 1:02:361:02:36Frame at 1:02:441:02:44

Play from 1:02:25 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 143 · shots 437–443. 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
Time of day
night evidence: frame:1
People
  • woman with short wavy hair, wearing a white robe with floral patterns and a belt visible
  • man with dark hair, wearing a light-colored shirt, kneeling visible
  • older man with bald head and dark clothing, standing behind p2 visible
Seen happening
  • A woman in a white robe stands near stone steps under a dark sky. [frame:1]
  • Close-up of the woman’s face, showing wide eyes and a neutral expression. [frame:2]
  • The woman stands with arms slightly raised in a rocky, dimly lit area. [frame:3]
  • The woman stands while a man kneels beside her and another man stands behind them. [frame:4]
Seen
stone steps [frame:1], white robe with floral patterns [frame:3], belt with chain detail [frame:3], rocky background [frame:4]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: somber and suspenseful; themes: supernatural, ritual, power dynamics; style notes: high-contrast black-and-white lighting, static medium and close-up shots, theatrical staging

A woman in a white robe stands near stone steps at night; she is later seen close-up and then with two men in a dim, rocky setting. One man kneels beside her while another stands behind, and a line says 'So, let's go.'

“so” 62:30 · “So, let's go.” 62:41 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 1:02:26 (passage 1:02:25–1:02:49); US record: No renewal found

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