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night_of_the_living_dead_dvd · Beat 188 · permalink

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57:36–58:15 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; 6 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 57:4057:40Frame at 58:0258:02Frame at 58:0658:06Frame at 58:1358:13

Play from 57:36 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 81 · shots 526–532. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
(other, interior) evidence: frame:1, frame:4
People
  • man, dark skin, short hair, wearing light shirt, visible in low-angle shot visible
  • man, light skin, dark hair, wearing light shirt, visible behind p1 visible
  • man, balding, light skin, wearing light shirt, leaning forward visible
  • man, dark hair, wearing light shirt and pants, standing visible
  • woman, dark hair, wearing light top, seated in background visible
  • Don Quinn (named at t:58:00): man, voice only, identified as Newsman Don Quinn audible
Seen happening
  • A man (p1) and another man (p2) are shown in a low-angle shot, looking down. [frame:1]
  • A balding man (p3) leans forward, appearing concerned. [frame:3]
  • A group of people, including p1, p3, p4, and p5, are gathered in a room, looking toward something off-screen. [frame:4]
Also said
“Newsman Don Quinn in Washington.” 58:00 · “You're coming from a meeting regarding the explosion of the Venus probe, is that right? Yes, yes, that was the subject of the meeting. Do you feel there is a connection between this and the phenomenon? There's a definite connection, a definite connection.” 58:08
Seen
light-colored shirts [frame:1, frame:3, frame:4], furniture (couch or chair) [frame:3, frame:4], doorway or hallway visible in background [frame:4]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and urgent; themes: media reporting, scientific disaster, group survival; style notes: black-and-white, low-angle and medium shots, high-contrast lighting, confined framing

A news report discusses a destroyed Venus probe and its possible link to murders, while inside a room, people react to a threat and plan to reach a pump. No names are spoken for the individuals visible, and the setting is an interior space with no clear time of day.

“That satellite, you'll recall, started back to Earth.” 57:39 · “but never got here.” 57:42 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 57:40 (passage 57:36–58:15)

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