Public Reel

White Zombie · Beat 98 · permalink

Living room

23:13–23:20 Registered 1932

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 23:1723:17

Play from 23:13 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 50 · shots 188–188. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
living_room (living room, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man, dark hair, wearing a dark formal suit with a white shirt and bow tie visible
  • woman, light-colored dress, lying back, eyes closed visible
Seen
formal suit [frame:1], woman's dress [frame:1], indoor foliage or decor [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: dramatic and somber; themes: drama, suspense; style notes: static medium shot, high contrast lighting, theatrical staging

A man in formal attire holds a woman lying back in his arms inside a dimly lit room. No dialogue or on-screen text is present in the frames.

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.

Share

Paste the permalink anywhere that shows link previews and it carries the frame, the time and the finding. The card image can be saved and used with a credit.

Frame from White Zombie (1932) at 23:17 (passage 23:13–23:20); US record: No renewal found

Permalink
always the current cut
Permalink to this version
warns if the beats are recut later
Card image
https://publicreel.org/cards/moment/white_zombie/b98.png
Figure for a newsletter or page
Cite