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night_of_the_living_dead_dvd · Beat 177 · permalink

Living room

53:34–53:37 Released 1968

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 1 name checked for a spoken or on-screen source; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 53:3553:35

Play from 53:34 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 75 · shots 494–494. 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
  • long hair, wearing a sleeveless top, seen from behind visible
Seen
ornate lamp [frame:1], cushioned furniture with lace trim [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: isolation, domestic space under threat; style notes: low-key lighting, tight framing on a single figure, black-and-white film stock

A person with long hair is seen from behind, leaning over a piece of furniture in a dimly lit interior. No dialogue or on-screen text is present in this beat.

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 53:35 (passage 53:34–53:37)

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