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White Zombie · Beat 89 · permalink

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20:40–20:53 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 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 20:4620:46

Play from 20:40 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 45 · shots 169–169. 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
People
  • wearing dark, long-sleeved clothing, visible hands and forearms visible
Seen happening
  • A person manipulates a small, pale object wrapped in cloth with both hands. [frame:1]
Seen
small pale object wrapped in cloth [frame:1], dark long-sleeved garment [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: mysterious; themes: ritual, object manipulation; style notes: close-up, high-contrast lighting, black-and-white, static frame

A person in dark clothing holds a small, pale object wrapped in cloth, manipulating it with both hands in a dimly lit interior. No dialogue or on-screen text is present in this beat.

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 20:46 (passage 20:40–20:53); US record: No renewal found

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