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White Zombie · Beat 68 · permalink

Private office

16:27–17:05 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; 1 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 16:3316:33Frame at 16:3916:39Frame at 16:5116:51Frame at 17:0317:03

Play from 16:27 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 38 · shots 137–140. 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:3
People
  • man with slicked-back hair, wearing dark coat, gesturing with right hand holding small object visible
  • man wearing dark hat and coat with high collar, round face, appears alarmed or concerned visible
Seen happening
  • Man p1 gestures with hand holding small object while speaking [frame:1]
  • Man p2 looks alarmed, facing off-screen left [frame:2]
  • Man p1 and man p2 stand facing each other in a room with furniture [frame:3]
  • Man p2 turns head slightly, still looking alarmed [frame:4]
Seen
small object held in hand [frame:1], wooden desk or table [frame:3], candles or bottles on shelf [frame:3]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and ominous; themes: power exchange, manipulation, moral dilemma; style notes: high-contrast lighting, tight framing on faces, static camera shots emphasizing dialogue and expression

Two men are in a dimly lit interior space; one speaks while gesturing, the other listens with a concerned expression. The speaker holds an object and appears to be offering it, as indicated by the transcript line 'Keep it. Keep it. You may change your mind.'

“Keep it. Keep it. You may change your mind.” 16:51 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 16:33 (passage 16:27–17:05); US record: No renewal found

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