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night_of_the_living_dead_dvd · Beat 159 · permalink

Private office

47:38–47:48 Released 1968

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 3 quotes checked against the transcript; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 47:3947:39Frame at 47:4047:40Frame at 47:4547:45Frame at 47:4747:47

Play from 47:38 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 66 · shots 452–456. 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:2
People
  • young man, dark hair, wearing a t-shirt visible
  • older man, balding, wearing a shirt and tie visible
Seen happening
  • The older man turns his head sharply toward something off-screen. [frame:3]
Also said
“like that.” 47:46
Seen
shirt and tie [frame:2], t-shirt [frame:1], wall-mounted object (possibly a vase or lamp) [frame:3]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: urgency, interpersonal conflict; style notes: tight close-ups, high-contrast black-and-white lighting, static camera

Two men are shown in close-up and medium shots inside a room; one speaks urgently while the other reacts. The transcript includes a shouted warning and a name, Judy, being called.

“Wait a minute!” 47:40 · “Judy, come on off your running.” 47:43 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 47:39 (passage 47:38–47:48)

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