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White Zombie · Beat 48 · permalink

Dirt path

10:34–10:38 Registered 1932

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 10:3610:36

Play from 10:34 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 31 · shots 92–92. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
dirt path (road, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • dark-clothed figure seated in carriage, visible from side visible
  • dark-clothed figure seated beside p1, visible from side visible
Seen happening
  • A horse-drawn carriage moves along a dirt path at night. [frame:1]
Seen
horse-drawn carriage [frame:1], horse [frame:1], dense foliage [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: eerie; themes: night travel, isolation, horror; style notes: high-angle shot, black and white, low-key lighting, night setting

A horse-drawn carriage with two occupants moves along a dirt path at night, surrounded by dense foliage. The scene is shot from a high angle in black and white, with no dialogue or on-screen text.

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 10:36 (passage 10:34–10:38); US record: No renewal found

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