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White Zombie · Beat 35 · permalink

Vehicle interior

5:18–5:55 Registered 1932

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 5:205:20Frame at 5:255:25Frame at 5:295:29Frame at 5:495:49

Play from 5:18 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 28 · shots 54–59. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
vehicle_interior (vehicle interior, interior) evidence: frame:1
Time of day
night evidence: frame:3
People
  • man in light suit and tie, dark hair, medium build visible, audible
  • woman with light-colored cloche hat and dress, fair skin, slender build visible, audible
Seen happening
  • The man and woman are seated together in a vehicle, looking forward. [frame:1]
  • The man turns his head slightly while the woman looks alarmed. [frame:2]
  • A figure is seen standing in a dark, overgrown outdoor area. [frame:3]
  • The man speaks while the woman looks at him. [frame:4]
Also said
“Something happened back on the road there.” 5:45 · “The driver told us they weren't men at all. He said they were.” 5:51
Seen
light-colored suit [frame:1], cloche hat [frame:1], dark foliage [frame:3], figure in dark clothing [frame:3]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and ominous; themes: fear, uncanny, travel at night; style notes: high-contrast lighting, tight framing on characters, dark outdoor shots suggest horror genre

A man and a woman are in a vehicle at night; the man speaks apologetically while the woman looks alarmed. They discuss being frightened by something on the road, which the driver claims were not men.

“Have you got the knife?” 5:35 · “Did I frighten you? I'm sorry. I'm ugly enough I suppose.” 5:38 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 5:20 (passage 5:18–5:55); US record: No renewal found

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