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night_of_the_living_dead_dvd · Beat 192 · permalink

Private office

1:00:43–1:01:03 Released 1968

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 2 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 1:00:451:00:45Frame at 1:00:481:00:48Frame at 1:00:501:00:50Frame at 1:00:581:00:58

Play from 1:00:43 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 83 · shots 539–542. 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
  • woman, dark hair, wearing a patterned coat over a striped top visible
  • man, dark hair, wearing a light-colored long-sleeve shirt and dark pants visible, audible
  • person seen from behind, wearing a checkered shirt visible
  • man, partially visible in background, wearing a light shirt visible
Seen happening
  • The woman stands in a doorway, looking concerned. [frame:1]
  • The woman sits in a chair, looking toward the man. [frame:3]
Seen
doorway, chair, checkered shirt
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: survival, authority, horror; style notes: black-and-white, medium close-ups, high-contrast lighting, static camera

A woman and a man are in an interior room; the man speaks about a cadaver at the university that opened its eyes. The woman is instructed to send someone named Judy up and to stay with a child.

“Yeah, you tell Judy to come up here and you stay with the kid, all right?” 60:49 · “In the cold room at the university, we had a cadaver. A cadaver from which all four limbs had been amputated. Sometime early this morning, it opened its eyes...” 60:57 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 1:00:45 (passage 1:00:43–1:01:03)

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