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night_of_the_living_dead_dvd · Beat 108 · permalink

Vehicle interior

27:00–27:56 Released 1968

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 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 27:2427:24Frame at 27:5227:52

Play from 27:00 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 54 · shots 267–268. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
vehicle_interior (vehicle interior, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man, dark skin, wearing a light-colored long-sleeve shirt, seated visible, audible
  • Johnny (named at t:27:51): woman, light skin, blonde hair, wearing a light-colored coat with a collar, seated visible, audible
Also said
“just plowed right through them.” 27:19 · “We were riding in the cemetery.” 27:43
Seen
car interior [frame:1], coat [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and desperate; themes: isolation, survival, encounter with the undead; style notes: black-and-white close-ups, static framing, high-contrast lighting

A man and a woman are shown in separate close-ups, speaking about being surrounded by a large group of motionless figures and driving through them. The transcript mentions a cemetery and a person named Johnny.

“I realized it.” 27:01 · “50 or 60 of those things. Just...” 27:06 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 27:24 (passage 27:00–27:56)

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