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White Zombie · Beat 38 · permalink

Living room

7:10–7:36 Registered 1932

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

Frame at 7:127:12Frame at 7:207:20Frame at 7:317:31Frame at 7:347:34

Play from 7:10 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 28 · shots 67–71. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
living_room (living room, interior) evidence: frame:2
People
  • older man, balding, wearing dark formal suit and bow tie visible
  • younger man, dark hair, wearing white suit visible
  • woman, light-colored hair, wearing light dress, seated visible
  • man in dark suit, partially visible in background visible
Seen happening
  • An older man looks down and to his right with a stern expression. [frame:1]
  • The older man and younger man stand facing each other; the woman sits nearby. [frame:2]
  • The older man gestures with his right hand while speaking to the younger man. [frame:3]
  • The older man stands alone, looking directly at the camera. [frame:4]
Seen
candelabra with lit candles, large mirror, floral arrangements, ornate furniture
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and formal; themes: social hierarchy, formal confrontation; style notes: static medium shots, high-contrast lighting with deep shadows, theatrical staging

An older man in formal wear speaks to a younger man in a white suit in a candlelit room; a woman sits nearby. The older man is later shown alone, looking toward the camera.

“Very strange.” 7:24 · “I'll tell Mr. Beaumont, sir, here.” 7:33 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 7:12 (passage 7:10–7:36); US record: No renewal found

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