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White Zombie · Beat 54 · permalink

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12:34–13:00 Registered 1932

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 2 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 12:3412:34Frame at 12:4312:43Frame at 12:5512:55

Play from 12:34 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 32 · shots 109–111. 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, frame:2, frame:3
People
  • man wearing a fedora and dark coat, medium build, visible from chest up visible
  • man behind a counter, wearing a vest, visible from waist up, holding an object visible
Seen
fedora [frame:1], coat [frame:1], wooden beams [frame:1], barrels [frame:2], counter [frame:3], candles [frame:3]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and shadowy; themes: confrontation, mystery; style notes: high-contrast lighting with deep shadows, medium shots, static camera, period costume

A man in a fedora and coat stands in a dim, cluttered interior space; another man appears behind a counter as the first man turns toward him. The setting includes wooden structures and barrels, suggesting a rustic or industrial location.

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 12:34 (passage 12:34–13:00); US record: No renewal found

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