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night_of_the_living_dead_dvd · Beat 193 · permalink

Private office

1:01:03–1:01:37 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; 4 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 1:01:121:01:12Frame at 1:01:281:01:28Frame at 1:01:361:01:36

Play from 1:01:03 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 83 · shots 543–545. 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, wearing glasses and a suit with 'FOXBURG HALL' printed on it visible
  • woman with dark hair, wearing a dark top, standing over a child visible
  • woman with lighter hair, standing behind p2, looking down visible
  • Baby (named at t:61:25): child with dark hair, wearing a patterned dress, lying on a table visible, audible
Seen happening
  • A man in a suit is visible on a monitor screen. [frame:1]
  • A woman tends to a child lying on a table while another woman watches. [frame:2]
  • A child lies on a table, mouth open, appearing to cry or speak. [frame:3]
Also said
“I hurt.” 61:29 · “Thank you, Judy.” 61:35
Seen
monitor screen, clock on wall, table, child's dress
On screen
FOXBURG HAL
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and unsettling; themes: distress, communication breakdown, parental concern; style notes: black-and-white, tight framing on faces and monitors, high-contrast lighting

A man in a suit is seen on a monitor labeled 'FOXBURG HALL'; in another location, a woman tends to a child lying on a table while another woman looks on; the child speaks and cries out in pain. The transcript includes fragmented dialogue about a dead creature moving, someone watching upstairs, and a mother comforting a hurt child.

“and began to move its trunk. It was dead, but it opened its eyes and tried to move.” 61:09 · “They watch upstairs.” 61:16 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 1:01:12 (passage 1:01:03–1:01:37)

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