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night_of_the_living_dead_dvd · Beat 204 · permalink

Living room

1:05:15–1:05:55 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; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:05:181:05:18Frame at 1:05:281:05:28Frame at 1:05:421:05:42Frame at 1:05:511:05:51

Play from 1:05:15 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 86 · shots 591–595. 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
  • woman with long dark hair, wearing dark clothing visible, audible
  • Smiley (named at t:65:40): man with short dark hair, wearing a light t-shirt visible, audible
Seen happening
  • The man touches the woman's shoulder and asks for a smile. [frame:4]
Also said
“This isn't a passing thing, honey.” 65:31 · “I just don't want you to go out there, that's all. Hey, Smiley.” 65:40
Seen
t-shirt, dark clothing
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and urgent; themes: survival under pressure, interpersonal conflict during crisis; style notes: close-up shots, high-contrast black-and-white lighting, intimate framing

A man and a woman are in a tense conversation inside a room; the man urges immediate action while the woman resists going outside. The man calls the woman 'Smiley' and asks for a smile as he touches her shoulder.

“Hey, listen. Remember?” 65:17 · “when we had the big flood.” 65:22 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 1:05:18 (passage 1:05:15–1:05:55)

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