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night_of_the_living_dead_dvd · Beat 164 · permalink

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48:47–48:54 Released 1968

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 2 quotes checked against the transcript; 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 48:4848:48Frame at 48:4948:49Frame at 48:5248:52

Play from 48:47 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 69 · shots 465–467. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
other (other, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • bald man, wearing light shirt and dark tie, dark trousers, medium build visible
  • woman with dark hair, seated, wearing dark top visible
  • person lying on table, covered with cloth, face not visible visible
Seen happening
  • Man stands near wall, looking off-camera. [frame:1]
  • Woman sits beside a person lying on a table. [frame:2]
  • Man turns away from wall, back to camera. [frame:3]
Seen
stone-textured wall, table with person lying on it, shelf with items, dark tie
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and somber; themes: isolation, survival, human vulnerability; style notes: black-and-white, high-contrast lighting, static medium shots, confined space

A man in a shirt and tie stands near a textured wall while a woman sits beside a person lying on a table; dialogue mentions Tom and Judy wanting to stay up there. The setting appears to be an interior room with minimal furnishings and a stone-like wall.

“What about Tom and Judy?” 48:48 · “They want to stay up there and let them.” 48:49 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 48:48 (passage 48:47–48:54)

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