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night_of_the_living_dead_dvd · Beat 170 · permalink

Living room

51:39–52:08 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; 4 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 51:4751:47Frame at 52:0252:02

Play from 51:39 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech; cut falls inside a spoken line: no pause was available without exceeding the length cap. Sequence 70 · shots 484–485. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
living_room (living room, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • woman with long hair, wearing dark top, seated visible
  • child with light hair, seated, covering mouth visible
  • man in short-sleeved shirt and light pants, leaning forward visible
  • silhouetted figure in doorway, holding something visible
Seen happening
  • A man leans toward a seated woman and child. [frame:1]
  • A figure stands silhouetted in a doorway. [frame:2]
Also said
“Okay, open up.” 51:46 · “I'm going to go.” 51:48
Seen
doorway, couch, wall picture, silhouetted figure holding object
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: confrontation, departure, domestic tension; style notes: high-contrast black-and-white, tight framing on characters, low-angle shot of doorway

A woman and a child sit inside a room while a man leans toward them; another shot shows a figure silhouetted in a doorway. A voice says 'Do this. For me. Okay, open up. I'm going to go.'

“Do this.” 51:42 · “For me.” 51:43 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 51:47 (passage 51:39–52:08)

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