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night_of_the_living_dead_dvd · Beat 114 · permalink

Private office

30:37–31:12 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; 1 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 30:3930:39Frame at 30:5530:55Frame at 31:0731:07Frame at 31:1231:12

Play from 30:37 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 54 · shots 286–294. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
private_office (private office, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • Johnny's sister (named at t:30:37): woman with long blonde hair, wearing a light-colored coat visible, audible
  • man in a light shirt, dark hair, medium build visible, audible
  • unseen person being held or restrained visible
Seen happening
  • A man restrains another person. [frame:2]
  • A person is lying on the floor. [frame:3]
  • A man looks distressed. [frame:4]
Also said
“Don't you know what's going on out there? This is no Sunday school picnic. Don't you understand? My brother is alone!” 30:46 · “Your brother is dead. No!” 30:52
Seen
door, coat, shirt
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and desperate; themes: survival, family loyalty, denial of death; style notes: black-and-white, high-contrast lighting, tight framing on faces to emphasize emotion

A woman pleads for help to retrieve her brother Johnny, who is believed dead, while a man reacts to the situation. The scene takes place indoors, with visible distress and physical struggle.

“Please! We have got to go get Johnny's!” 30:37 · “Please help me! Please!” 30:42 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 30:39 (passage 30:37–31:12)

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