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White Zombie · Beat 53 · permalink

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11:57–12:34 Registered 1932

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

Frame at 12:0512:05Frame at 12:1612:16Frame at 12:2612:26

Play from 11:57 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 32 · shots 106–108. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
(other, interior) evidence: frame:2
People
  • man wearing a hat and dark coat, medium build visible
  • figure in dark cloak, standing beside p1 on stairs visible
  • man in dark coat, standing in foreground of dim room visible
  • person seated at table, partially obscured visible
  • person seated in background, wearing hat visible
Seen happening
  • A man in a hat and coat walks past a stone wall. [frame:1]
  • Two figures stand together on a stone staircase. [frame:2]
  • A group is gathered in a dim room; one person is seated at a table. [frame:3]
Seen
stone wall, staircase with metal railing, table, hat
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: somber and mysterious; themes: mystery, encounter, isolation; style notes: high-contrast black-and-white lighting, static medium shots, shadowy interiors

A man in a hat and coat walks past a stone wall, then stands with another figure on a staircase, before a group is seen in a dim interior with one person seated at a table. The transcript includes a line spoken at 12:30 saying 'I'd like to see you again.'

“So, let's go.” 12:00 · “I'd like to see you again.” 12:30 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 12:05 (passage 11:57–12:34); US record: No renewal found

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