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White Zombie · Beat 43 · permalink

Private office

9:11–9:42 Registered 1932

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 3 quotes checked against the transcript; 5 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 9:209:20Frame at 9:329:32Frame at 9:369:36Frame at 9:409:40

Play from 9:11 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 29 · shots 81–84. 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
  • older man, balding, wearing dark suit and tie visible, audible
  • man in light suit and shorts, standing with hands clasped visible
  • woman in light dress and hat, standing beside p2 visible
  • man in white suit, standing near doorway visible
  • man in dark coat, driving a horse-drawn carriage at night visible
Seen happening
  • A horse-drawn carriage is shown moving at night. [frame:2]
  • A man in a dark suit stands near a clock and tapestry. [frame:4]
Also said
“So,” 9:28
Seen
horse-drawn carriage, clock, tapestry, candelabra, staircase
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: formal and slightly ominous; themes: class hierarchy, arrival and transition, mystery; style notes: static framing, high contrast lighting, ornate interior decor

A group of people stand in a grand interior as one is directed to a room; a horse-drawn carriage is shown outdoors at night. A man in a suit stands near a clock and tapestry indoors.

“Yes, yes indeed. Oh yes of course. I'm sure he will make a very good agent. But you must be tired after your drive. You'll get them ready. Silver!” 9:11 · “Silver will show you to your room. This way, please.” 9:23 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 9:20 (passage 9:11–9:42); US record: No renewal found

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