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1:03:46–1:04:17 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; 1 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:03:481:03:48Frame at 1:04:031:04:03Frame at 1:04:121:04:12Frame at 1:04:151:04:15

Play from 1:03:46 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 152 · shots 463–475. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
other (other, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • wearing a light-colored shirt and a dark hat, head bowed, hands clasped visible
  • bald, wearing a dark robe or cloak, head bowed visible
Seen happening
  • Two figures sit with bowed heads in a dimly lit space. [frame:1]
  • A gnarled tree is shown in a dark, possibly outdoor setting. [frame:2]
  • A dark, jagged cliff face is visible against a lighter, textured background. [frame:3]
  • A chaotic, swirling mass of light and dark shapes is shown, possibly representing smoke or clouds. [frame:4]
Seen
hat [frame:1], robe [frame:1], tree [frame:2], cliff [frame:3]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: ominous and suspenseful; themes: mystery, foreboding; style notes: high-contrast black and white cinematography, dramatic lighting, static shots focusing on texture and shadow

Two figures are shown in a dim interior, followed by a shot of a tree and then a rocky cliff face. The transcript contains only the spoken line "Come on."

“Come on.” 63:47 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 1:03:48 (passage 1:03:46–1:04:17); US record: No renewal found

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