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night_of_the_living_dead_dvd · Beat 109 · permalink

Living room

27:56–28:33 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 27:5827:58Frame at 28:1628:16

Play from 27:56 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 54 · shots 269–270. 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 light-colored shirt visible
  • Barbara (named at t:28:11): woman, light hair, wearing light coat or jacket visible
Seen happening
  • A man is shown leaning forward, looking down. [frame:1]
  • A woman is shown seated, looking off-camera with a concerned expression. [frame:2]
Also said
“Barbara.” 28:11 · “Oh, it's hot in here. Hot.” 28:24
Seen
shirt, coat, curtains
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and claustrophobic; themes: isolation, distress, unresolved dialogue; style notes: close-up framing, high-contrast black-and-white lighting, static camera

A man and a woman are shown in close-up inside a room; the transcript includes fragmented dialogue about Puerto Rico, a grave, candy, and heat. No names are established for the individuals beyond what is spoken in the transcript.

“We came to Puerto Rico.” 27:58 · “on my father's grave” 28:00 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 27:58 (passage 27:56–28:33)

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