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White Zombie · Beat 87 · permalink

Gate entrance

20:14–20:38 Registered 1932

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 1 name 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 20:1720:17Frame at 20:2920:29

Play from 20:14 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 44 · shots 166–167. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
gate entrance (other, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in dark long coat, balding, medium build visible
Seen happening
  • A man stands silhouetted at a gate flanked by lit lanterns. [frame:1]
  • The man turns and reaches toward a lantern on the right. [frame:2]
Seen
gate [frame:1], lanterns [frame:1], foliage [frame:1], dark coat [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: ominous; themes: isolation, threshold, night; style notes: high-contrast lighting, static framing, medium shot emphasizing the gate and lanterns

A man in a dark coat stands at a gated entrance at night, then turns to touch a lantern. The setting is outdoors, with heavy foliage and two lit lanterns flanking the gate.

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 20:17 (passage 20:14–20:38); US record: No renewal found

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