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night_of_the_living_dead_dvd · Beat 106 · permalink

Living room

25:42–26:16 Released 1968

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 3 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 25:4525:45Frame at 25:4825:48Frame at 26:0126:01Frame at 26:1126:11

Play from 25:42 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 54 · shots 260–264. 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, mid-adult, wearing white shirt and dark pants, average build visible
  • woman, mid-adult, blonde hair, wearing light-colored coat or dress visible
  • unseen speaker audible
Seen happening
  • A man pushes a chair against a door. [frame:1]
  • A man climbs over a banister. [frame:2]
  • A man kneels and handles a rifle. [frame:3]
  • A woman crouches near a fireplace. [frame:4]
Also said
“It went right through the billboard.” 26:05 · “By now it's like a moving bonfire.” 26:09
Seen
wooden chair, rifle, fireplace, banister
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and urgent; themes: survival, panic, isolation; style notes: black-and-white, high-contrast lighting, medium and close shots, handheld or quick cuts suggest chaos

A man in a white shirt is seen moving furniture and handling a weapon inside a house while a woman crouches nearby. A voice describes a vehicle crashing through a guardrail, billboard, and gas pump, becoming a moving fire.

“Right across the road.” 25:42 · “It went right through the guardrail.” 25:48 automatic transcript, may be wrong

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 25:45 (passage 25:42–26:16)

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