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White Zombie · Beat 26 · permalink

Private office

3:26–3:28 Registered 1932

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 3:273:27

Play from 3:26 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 25 · shots 28–28. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
private_office (private office, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man, wearing a light-colored suit and tie, dark hair, medium build visible
  • woman, blonde curly hair, light-colored dress, fair complexion visible
Seen happening
  • A man and a woman look off-camera with alarmed expressions. [frame:1]
Seen
suit [frame:1], tie [frame:1], blonde curly hair [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: fear, suspense; style notes: close-up shot, high contrast lighting, black and white film

A man and a woman are shown in close-up, both looking off-camera with expressions of alarm. The woman covers her mouth with her hand.

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 3:27 (passage 3:26–3:28); US record: No renewal found

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