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White Zombie · Beat 28 · permalink

Private office

4:03–4:25 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; 0 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 4:054:05Frame at 4:154:15

Play from 4:03 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 25 · shots 38–39. 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:2
People
  • man in suit and tie, dark hair, medium build visible
  • woman with short curly hair, light-colored dress, fair skin visible
Seen happening
  • A man and a woman are shown in close proximity. [frame:1]
  • The scene cuts to a wide shot of a large, dark room with many figures and windows. [frame:2]
Seen
suit and tie, curly hair, windows, figures
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: departure, confinement; style notes: high-contrast lighting, static framing, medium close-up followed by wide shot

A man and a woman are shown in close proximity in a dimly lit interior; the scene then cuts to a wide shot of a large, dark room with many figures and windows. A line of dialogue states an intention to leave.

“I'm going to go.” 4:18 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 4:05 (passage 4:03–4:25); US record: No renewal found

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