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White Zombie · Beat 85 · permalink

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19:18–19:39 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; 3 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 19:2719:27Frame at 19:3819:38

Play from 19:18 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 44 · shots 159–160. 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, frame:2
People
  • man in formal dark suit and bow tie, dark curly hair, medium build visible
  • woman in white wedding veil and gown, holding a rose, light hair visible
  • man in dark suit and tie, balding, medium build visible
Seen happening
  • A man in formal wear stands facing a veiled woman holding a rose. [frame:1]
  • A balding man in a suit sits beside tropical plants. [frame:2]
Seen
wedding veil, rose, tropical plants, stone stairs
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense or dramatic; themes: marriage, sudden alarm; style notes: static medium shots, high-contrast black-and-white lighting, theatrical staging

A man in formal wear stands near a woman in a wedding veil holding a rose; another man in a suit sits beside tropical plants. The transcript includes an exclamation of alarm.

“Oh, my God.” 19:36 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 19:27 (passage 19:18–19:39); US record: No renewal found

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