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White Zombie · Beat 83 · permalink

Private office

18:41–19:11 Registered 1932

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 2 quotes 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 18:5718:57

Play from 18:41 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 43 · shots 157–157. 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 in dark formal suit, dark hair, medium build visible, audible
  • woman in white gown with veil, holding bouquet, light hair visible
Seen happening
  • Woman remains silent while man speaks. [frame:1]
Seen
bouquet [frame:1], staircase [frame:1], formal suit [frame:1], white gown with veil [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and urgent; themes: urgency, departure, formal attire, romantic tension; style notes: static medium shot, high-contrast lighting, formal costumes, staged staircase setting

A man and a woman stand on a staircase in formal attire; the man speaks urgently while the woman holds a bouquet. The transcript indicates a plea to leave before it is too late and mentions a midnight boat.

“I'll just be there before it's too late. Joe, please. Don't go there, I'll be. We can be in quarter place in half an hour. There's a boat sailing at midnight. You'll stay so late, sir. We'll stay on everything. Now.” 18:43 · “All right.” 19:06 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 18:57 (passage 18:41–19:11); US record: No renewal found

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