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White Zombie · Beat 96 · permalink

Private office

22:44–23:00 Registered 1932

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 2 quotes checked against the transcript; 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 22:4722:47Frame at 22:5222:52Frame at 22:5822:58

Play from 22:44 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 50 · shots 183–185. 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
  • woman in white wedding dress and veil, young, slender visible
  • man in formal suit with white tie and boutonniere, young, medium build visible
  • Beth (named at t:22:45): man in dark suit, medium build, seen from behind and side visible
Seen happening
  • A woman in a wedding dress stands beside a man in formal attire at a table with flowers and candles. [frame:1]
  • Close-up of the bride and groom; the groom looks at the bride with concern. [frame:2]
  • A man in a dark suit touches a statue in a dimly lit room. [frame:3]
Seen
wedding dress and veil [frame:1], formal suit with white tie and boutonniere [frame:1], table with flowers and candles [frame:1], statue [frame:3]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and somber; themes: marriage, concern, mystery; style notes: static medium shots, high-contrast lighting, formal composition

A woman in a wedding dress stands beside a man in formal attire at a table with flowers and candles; another man in a dark suit approaches them. The scene shifts to a close-up of the bride and groom, then to the man in the dark suit touching a statue in a dimly lit room.

“Beth.” 22:45 · “Beth, what's wrong? I've been right here.” 22:50 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 22:47 (passage 22:44–23:00); US record: No renewal found

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