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White Zombie · Beat 86 · permalink

Church

19:39–20:14 Registered 1932

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 3 quotes checked against the transcript; 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 19:4419:44Frame at 19:4919:49Frame at 20:0020:00Frame at 20:0920:09

Play from 19:39 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 44 · shots 161–165. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
church (church, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in formal black suit with white shirt and boutonniere, dark curly hair visible
  • woman in white gown and veil, wearing long gloves visible
  • guests in formal attire, mostly indistinct visible
Seen happening
  • A man and woman hold hands during a ceremony. [frame:2]
  • A wedding ceremony is taking place in a decorated church aisle. [frame:1]
  • The man in formal attire looks forward with a serious expression. [frame:3]
Also said
“This man, this woman, in Holy Magdalene, faith.” 20:00
Seen
floral arch, long white gloves, boutonniere, large windows with light, statues or figures on balcony
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: solemn and ritualistic; themes: marriage ceremony, religious ritual, formal union; style notes: static medium shots, high-contrast lighting, theatrical staging with floral decor and formal attire

A wedding ceremony is depicted in a dimly lit, ornate room with floral decorations. A man in formal attire and a woman in a white gown are present, with guests visible in the background.

“We are gathered together here in the sight of God and in the face of this company.” 19:52 · “To join together.” 19:58 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 19:44 (passage 19:39–20:14); US record: No renewal found

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