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night_of_the_living_dead_dvd · Beat 235 · permalink

Farm

1:09:53–1:10:13 Released 1968

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks flagged: time_of_day without evidence. 1 quote checked against the transcript; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:09:581:09:58Frame at 1:10:041:10:04Frame at 1:10:091:10:09Frame at 1:10:121:10:12

Play from 1:09:53 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 110 · shots 662–665. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
farm (farm, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in light shirt and dark pants, balding, medium build visible, audible
  • man in light shirt and tie, medium build visible
Seen happening
  • A man bends near a car with headlights on in a field. [frame:1]
  • A man looks upward while holding onto a wooden structure. [frame:2]
  • A dark outdoor scene with trees and a distant light. [frame:3]
  • A man in a shirt and tie leans against a door frame inside a room. [frame:4]
Seen
car [frame:1], door [frame:4], wooden structure [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: struggle, isolation, nighttime peril; style notes: high-contrast black and white, low-angle shots, stark lighting

A man struggles with a door while another is seen near a car outside at night. The transcript indicates a key is not working and someone is being warned to watch out.

“Come on! This key won't work. Watch it.” 69:56 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 1:09:58 (passage 1:09:53–1:10:13)

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