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White Zombie · Beat 82 · permalink

Private office

18:23–18:41 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 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 18:3218:32

Play from 18:23 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 43 · shots 156–156. 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
People
  • man, dark formal suit, curly hair, medium build visible
  • woman, white wedding dress with veil, holding bouquet, medium build visible
Seen happening
  • A man and a woman stand together on a staircase. [frame:1]
Seen
{'item': 'wedding bouquet', 'evidence': 'frame:1'} [frame:1], {'item': 'staircase with wooden railing', 'evidence': 'frame:1'} [frame:1], {'item': 'curtains in background', 'evidence': 'frame:1'} [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: formal, staged; themes: wedding, formal ceremony; style notes: static medium shot, high-contrast lighting, theatrical staging

A man in formal wear and a woman in a wedding dress stand on a staircase. The transcript contains fragmented, possibly mis-transcribed lines spoken during this moment.

“I can make you the end of it every morning. I'll still ride with my finger to you, sir.” 18:36 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 18:32 (passage 18:23–18:41); US record: No renewal found

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