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White Zombie · Beat 50 · permalink

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11:00–11:20 Registered 1932

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 11:0311:03Frame at 11:0711:07Frame at 11:1111:11Frame at 11:1711:17

Play from 11:00 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 32 · shots 96–99. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
other (other, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • figure visible on upper balcony, wearing dark clothing, indistinct features visible
  • figure visible behind leaded glass window, wearing dark clothing, face partially obscured visible
  • figure visible on lower balcony, wearing light-colored clothing, standing near railing visible
Seen
wooden balcony and railing [frame:1], leaded glass window [frame:2], wooden support beams [frame:4]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: mysterious and tense; themes: surveillance, isolation, architectural space as a character; style notes: high-contrast black-and-white lighting, static camera shots focusing on architectural elements and silhouetted figures, creating a sense of confinement and observation

A multi-level wooden structure is shown with figures moving on different floors and balconies. A person is seen looking out from behind a leaded glass window, and another figure is visible on a lower balcony.

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 11:03 (passage 11:00–11:20); US record: No renewal found

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