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White Zombie · Beat 58 · permalink

Private office

14:09–14:10 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 14:1014:10

Play from 14:09 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 32 · shots 119–119. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
(private office, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man wearing a dark bowler hat and dark coat, seated, facing right visible
  • man with receding hairline, wearing dark coat, leaning forward over table visible
Seen
bottles [frame:1], box [frame:1], table [frame:1], bowler hat [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: confrontation, mystery; style notes: low-key lighting, medium close-up, static framing

Two men in dark clothing sit at a table in a dimly lit room with bottles and a box on the table. One man wears a bowler hat and faces the other, who leans forward over the table.

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 14:10 (passage 14:09–14:10); US record: No renewal found

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