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Kitchen

23:31–23:50 Released 1968

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 2 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 23:3623:36Frame at 23:4223:42Frame at 23:4723:47

Play from 23:31 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech; cut falls inside a spoken line: no pause was available without exceeding the length cap. Sequence 53 · shots 245–247. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
kitchen (kitchen, interior) evidence: frame:2
People
  • man, dark hair, wearing a light-colored shirt, holding a handgun visible
  • woman, blonde hair, wearing a light-colored top visible
Seen happening
  • A man holds a handgun in his right hand. [frame:1]
  • A woman with blonde hair is seen from behind, standing in a kitchen. [frame:2]
  • The man and woman are seen together, moving through the room. [frame:3]
Seen
handgun [frame:1], kitchen utensils on wall [frame:2], light-colored shirt [frame:1, frame:3], light-colored top [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: survival, confinement, dread; style notes: black-and-white, tight framing, high-contrast lighting, handheld or unstable camera movement suggested by motion blur

A man holds a handgun while a woman with blonde hair stands nearby in a dimly lit interior space. The man and woman appear to be moving together through the room, with kitchen utensils visible on the wall.

The record

Public domain through a copyright notice omitted on release in 1968, a rule this registry does not yet apply; the finding is the film's own documented history, not a catalog check. 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 night_of_the_living_dead_dvd (1968) at 23:36 (passage 23:31–23:50)

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