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White Zombie · Beat 66 · permalink

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15:54–16:07 Registered 1932

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 1 quote checked against the transcript; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 16:0116:01

Play from 15:54 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 36 · shots 134–134. 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
People
  • man wearing a dark coat and a bowler hat, light-skinned, middle-aged, thin build visible
  • man with dark hair and mustache, wearing a dark shirt, light-skinned, middle-aged, average build visible
Seen happening
  • A man grabs another man by the throat. [frame:1]
Seen
bowler hat [frame:1], dark coat [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: confrontation, violence; style notes: low-key lighting, tight two-shot, high contrast

A man in a dark coat and hat is grabbed by the throat by another man in a dimly lit interior. The transcript contains a shouted command to stop.

“No! Stop that!” 16:02 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 16:01 (passage 15:54–16:07); US record: No renewal found

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