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White Zombie · Beat 71 · permalink

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17:13–17:21 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; 1 name checked for a spoken or on-screen source; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 17:1717:17

Play from 17:13 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 40 · shots 143–143. 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 with slicked-back hair, dark high-collared clothing, visible from chest up visible, audible
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: ominous; themes: command, mystery; style notes: close-up, high-contrast lighting, static frame

A man in dark clothing is shown in a close-up, speaking a line about sending word when something is used. The setting is indistinct, with no visible objects or on-screen text.

“Send me word when you use it.” 17:16 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 17:17 (passage 17:13–17:21); US record: No renewal found

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