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White Zombie · Beat 31 · permalink

Forest

5:03–5:10 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 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 5:045:04Frame at 5:065:06Frame at 5:085:08

Play from 5:03 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 25 · shots 48–50. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
forest (forest, exterior) evidence: frame:1, frame:2
People
  • man in light-colored suit, standing next to a woman visible
  • woman in light dress, standing next to a man visible
  • man in dark coat and hat, pointing with right hand, wide-eyed visible
Seen happening
  • A man and a woman stand together outdoors. [frame:1]
  • A dark hillside with silhouettes is shown. [frame:2]
  • A man in a hat points and reacts with alarm. [frame:3]
Seen
dark vehicle [frame:1], trees and foliage [frame:1, frame:2], hat [frame:3]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: suspense, nighttime danger; style notes: high-contrast black-and-white, dramatic lighting, static shots

A man and a woman stand together outdoors at night as a figure points off-screen. A separate shot shows a dark hillside with silhouettes. A man in a hat reacts with alarm.

“Look!” 5:07 · “Here they come.” 5:09 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 5:04 (passage 5:03–5:10); US record: No renewal found

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