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White Zombie · Beat 56 · permalink

Private office

13:27–13:54 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; 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 13:4113:41

Play from 13:27 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 115–115. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
private_office (private office, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man wearing a dark hat and coat, seated on the left visible
  • man with slicked-back hair, wearing a dark suit, seated on the right, holding a small object visible
Seen happening
  • Two men sit at a desk facing each other in a dimly lit room. [frame:1]
Seen
desk [frame:1], inkwell and pen [frame:1], candlestick [frame:1], crucifix on wall [frame:1], bottles on shelf [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and somber; themes: negotiation, power dynamics, gothic atmosphere; style notes: high-contrast lighting, static medium shot, period costume, minimal set design

Two men sit at a desk in a dimly lit interior, one speaking while the other listens. The transcript contains fragmented, possibly mis-transcribed lines that do not clearly describe the scene.

“You did men for my marriage. Then they work basically and they are not worried about long hours. You, you could make good use of men like mine under your foundation.” 13:30 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 13:41 (passage 13:27–13:54); US record: No renewal found

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