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night_of_the_living_dead_dvd · Beat 196 · permalink

Living room

1:02:49–1:03:14 Released 1968

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:02:511:02:51Frame at 1:03:021:03:02Frame at 1:03:071:03:07Frame at 1:03:121:03:12

Play from 1:02:49 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 84 · shots 554–559. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
living_room (living room, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • Black man, short hair, wearing a light shirt and dark pants, standing visible
  • White man, short hair, wearing a light t-shirt and light pants, standing visible
  • White man, balding, wearing a light shirt and tie, standing visible
Also said
“You're it then. You and I will go.” 63:08 · “We'll put whatever number we find behind the cellar door.” 63:11
Seen
cellar door [frame:1], vase with flowers [frame:2], furniture (desk, chair) [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: survival, collaboration under pressure, resource scarcity; style notes: static medium shots, high contrast black-and-white, minimal set dressing

Two men discuss using a truck while standing inside a room with a cellar door; a third man is present. They agree to go together and secure a number behind the cellar door.

“I'm not really that used to the truck. I found it abandoned.” 62:59 · “I can handle the truck, no sweat.” 63:02 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 1:02:51 (passage 1:02:49–1:03:14)

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