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night_of_the_living_dead_dvd · Beat 107 · permalink

Living room

26:16–27:00 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; 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 26:3726:37Frame at 26:5926:59

Play from 26:16 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 54 · shots 265–266. 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 skin, short hair, wearing a light shirt and dark pants, crouching visible
  • woman, light skin, long blonde hair, wearing a light jacket, sitting visible
Seen happening
  • A man crouches near a fireplace, reaching toward the floor. [frame:1]
  • A woman sits holding a flower, looking down. [frame:2]
Also said
“wasn't a sign of light left.” 26:50 · “By now they're in the more screams.” 26:56
Seen
fireplace, flower, chair
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and anxious; themes: isolation, impending danger, helplessness; style notes: static medium shots, high-contrast black-and-white lighting, tight framing on characters

A man and a woman are shown in separate interior shots; the man crouches near a fireplace while the woman sits holding a flower. The transcript describes panic, a truck possibly exploding, and the diner being encircled with no lights left.

“Didn't know if the truck was going to explode or what.” 26:15 · “The entire place had been encircled.” 26:45 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 26:37 (passage 26:16–27:00)

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