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night_of_the_living_dead_dvd · Beat 18 · permalink

Cemetery

4:38–5:05 Released 1968

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

Frame at 4:404:40Frame at 4:484:48Frame at 4:594:59

Play from 4:38 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 13 · shots 24–26. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
cemetery (other, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man, middle-aged, wearing dark suit, white shirt, and polka-dot tie, glasses visible
  • woman, wearing light-colored coat, holding something in hands visible
  • child, wearing light-colored clothing, kneeling at grave visible
Seen happening
  • A man bends over a grave while a woman stands nearby and a child kneels at the grave. [frame:1]
  • The man stands and walks away from the grave while the child remains kneeling. [frame:2]
  • The man looks down, adjusting his tie or shirt. [frame:3]
Also said
“Hey, come on, Barb. Church was this morning, huh?” 4:50
Seen
grave marker [frame:1], polka-dot tie [frame:1], light-colored coat [frame:1], child's clothing [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: somber, reflective; themes: grief, ritual, family; style notes: black-and-white, medium shots, natural outdoor lighting, static framing

A man in a suit and tie tends to a grave while a woman in a coat stands nearby; a child is also present at the grave. The transcript includes remarks about cleaning up and selling something, and a comment about church being that morning.

“Yeah, a little spit and polish. You can clean this up. Sell it next year.” 4:38 · “Wonder how many times we bought the same one.” 4:43 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 4:40 (passage 4:38–5:05)

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