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night_of_the_living_dead_dvd · Beat 120 · permalink

House

34:22–34:45 Released 1968

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 1 quote checked against the transcript; 1 name checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 34:2434:24Frame at 34:2734:27Frame at 34:3234:32Frame at 34:3834:38

Play from 34:22 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 54 · shots 314–318. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
house (private office, interior) evidence: frame:2, frame:3, frame:4
Time of day
night evidence: frame:1
People
  • wearing light-colored shirt and dark pants, adult build visible
Seen happening
  • A person stands near a burning vehicle. [frame:1]
  • The person approaches a house entrance. [frame:2]
  • The person enters the house through a doorway. [frame:3]
  • The person crouches inside the house near a doorway. [frame:4]
Seen
burning vehicle [frame:1], house with porch and doorway [frame:2, frame:3, frame:4], chair on porch [frame:3]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and urgent; themes: survival, isolation, media response to crisis; style notes: high-contrast black-and-white lighting, static camera shots, medium-to-close framing emphasizing isolation and movement

A person is seen near a burning vehicle and then entering a house, while a news report announces a presidential cabinet meeting about a murder epidemic. The scenes shift from outdoors at night to indoors, showing the person moving through a doorway and crouching inside.

“Ladies and gentlemen, we've just received word that the president has called a meeting of his cabinet to deal with the sudden epidemic of murder which has seized the eastern third of the state.” 34:25 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 34:24 (passage 34:22–34:45)

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