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White Zombie · Beat 94 · permalink

Private office

21:32–22:18 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; 2 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 21:3421:34Frame at 21:5721:57

Play from 21:32 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 50 · shots 177–178. 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 formal tuxedo with bow tie and boutonniere, mid-adult, slender build visible, audible
  • multiple guests seated at a table, wearing formal attire, gender and age indistinct visible
Seen happening
  • A man in a tuxedo raises a glass in a formal dining room. [frame:1]
  • The same man holds a glass aloft, mouth open as if speaking or toasting. [frame:2]
Also said
“What? What? And I see... I see... I see... I see... I see... I see... far more than you said. Is that all? No.” 22:07
Seen
formal dining table with white tablecloth, chandelier and ornate wall sconces, wine glass held by man in tuxedo, tuxedo with bow tie and boutonniere
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and theatrical; themes: ritual, power, illusion; style notes: high-contrast lighting, static medium shots, formal composition emphasizing ritual and hierarchy

A man in formal wear raises a glass in a lavishly decorated room with other guests seated at a table. The transcript includes a toast to a bride and fragmented speech suggesting a dramatic or unsettling moment.

“- Thank you. - Hi, Mr.” 21:33 · “A toast to the bride, to the beauty queen. Gladly, my lord. Leave for your chance. So give me life. Leave my fortune.” 21:37 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 21:34 (passage 21:32–22:18); US record: No renewal found

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