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White Zombie · Beat 55 · permalink

Laboratory

13:00–13:27 Registered 1932

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 1 quote checked against the transcript; 1 name checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 13:0313:03Frame at 13:0913:09Frame at 13:2013:20

Play from 13:00 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 32 · shots 112–114. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
laboratory (laboratory, interior) evidence: frame:3
People
  • man with slicked-back hair, wearing dark high-collared coat, visible in close-up and medium shots visible
Seen happening
  • A man holds a small object in his hand. [frame:1]
  • A man looks upward with a slight smile. [frame:2]
  • A man stands in a dimly lit room with scientific equipment. [frame:3]
Seen
small object held in hand, scientific equipment including glassware and stands
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: mysterious and somber; themes: isolation, scientific experimentation, personal journey; style notes: high-contrast lighting, close-ups emphasizing facial expression, static camera framing

A man in dark clothing is shown in close-up and medium shots, holding an object in one frame and standing near equipment in another. The transcript includes a line about being on a journey, spoken during this beat.

“I've been on a journey.” 13:00 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 13:03 (passage 13:00–13:27); US record: No renewal found

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