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White Zombie · Beat 81 · permalink

Private office

18:02–18:23 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; 0 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 18:0918:09Frame at 18:1918:19

Play from 18:02 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 42 · shots 154–155. 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, frame:2
People
  • woman in long, light-colored gown, standing visible
  • man in dark suit and tie, balding, middle-aged visible
Seen happening
  • A woman in a long gown stands facing a man in a light-colored robe. [frame:1]
  • A man in a suit stands near a candelabra and doorway, looking down. [frame:2]
Seen
candelabra with lit candles, ornate doorway, draped fabric or curtains, chandelier
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: melodramatic and tense; themes: romantic desperation, gothic atmosphere, power imbalance; style notes: high-contrast lighting, theatrical staging, static camera, period costume

Two figures are shown in a dimly lit, ornate interior; one in a long gown and the other in a suit. A man in a suit is later seen near a candelabra and doorway, looking downward.

“I'm sorry, Matt, but more than anything else in this whole world. Heaven on hell, my dear, you could raise me up to paradise, or you could block my world into nothing.” 18:06 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 18:09 (passage 18:02–18:23); US record: No renewal found

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