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night_of_the_living_dead_dvd · Beat 180 · permalink

Private office

54:03–54:06 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 54:0454:04

Play from 54:03 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 77 · shots 504–504. 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:1
People
  • man, light shirt, dark trousers, balding, medium build visible
Seen
boarded window [frame:1], long object (possibly a pole or board) [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: isolation, defensive preparation; style notes: black and white, medium shot, high contrast lighting, static camera

A man in a light shirt and dark trousers stands indoors, holding a long object near a boarded-up window. The scene is lit by artificial light and shows no visible clock or window indicating time of day.

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 54:04 (passage 54:03–54:06)

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