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White Zombie · Beat 67 · permalink

Bar

16:07–16:27 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; 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 16:1616:16Frame at 16:2616:26

Play from 16:07 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 37 · shots 135–136. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
bar (bar, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in dark coat and hat, seen from back visible
  • man in dark coat, facing p1, standing behind a bar visible
  • hands holding a small open box visible
Seen happening
  • Two men stand facing each other in a bar. [frame:1]
  • A pair of hands holds open a small box containing a small object. [frame:2]
Seen
open box with small object, bar counter with bottles, hat
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: mysterious and theatrical; themes: power, offering, ritual; style notes: high-contrast lighting, static framing, close-up on hands and box

Two men are in a dimly lit interior; one holds an open box with a small object. A voice speaks of being a king and sharing help.

“I'm a king. I feel the love. A glass of wine. Or perhaps a flower. I think I'm a king. I'm very brief. So will you share if I need to help you?” 16:21 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 16:16 (passage 16:07–16:27); US record: No renewal found

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