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White Zombie · Beat 59 · permalink

Private office

14:10–14:30 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; 2 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 14:1714:17Frame at 14:2614:26Frame at 14:2914:29

Play from 14:10 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 32 · shots 120–122. 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, facing p2 visible
  • man in dark suit, seated behind a table with papers and a typewriter, appears to be speaking visible, audible
Seen happening
  • Two men are seated at a table in a dimly lit room, engaged in conversation. [frame:1]
  • The man in the hat leans forward, appearing to confront the other man. [frame:2]
  • The man behind the table looks up, speaking with an intense expression. [frame:3]
Seen
typewriter, papers, bottles on shelf, hat, dark coat
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and confrontational; themes: confrontation, urgency, marriage as a plot device; style notes: low-key lighting, tight framing on characters, high contrast shadows, typical of early horror films

Two men are seated at a table in a dimly lit room, speaking. One man, wearing a hat and dark coat, appears to be confronting the other, who is seated behind the table with papers and a typewriter.

“There was a young man.” 14:19 · “They have to be married. Tonight. You've waited too long to do anything. What do you want me to do?” 14:23 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 14:17 (passage 14:10–14:30); US record: No renewal found

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