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night_of_the_living_dead_dvd · Beat 155 · permalink

Yard

45:58–46:11 Released 1968

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 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 46:0346:03Frame at 46:0946:09

Play from 45:58 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 65 · shots 435–436. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
yard (other, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • bare-chested, walking away from camera, back visible visible
  • male, face distorted with dark eye sockets and open mouth, bare-chested visible
Seen happening
  • A bare-chested figure walks away from the camera across a yard at night. [frame:1]
  • A close-up shows a man with a distorted, pale face and dark eye sockets. [frame:2]
Seen
tree [frame:1], house [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: unsettling; themes: horror, night, undead; style notes: high-contrast black-and-white, tight close-up on distorted face, low-angle shot of walking figure

Two figures are shown outdoors at night; one walks away from the camera while the other is seen in a close-up with a distorted face. No dialogue or on-screen text is present in these frames.

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 46:03 (passage 45:58–46:11)

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