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night_of_the_living_dead_dvd · Beat 253 · permalink

Field

1:11:49–1:11:54 Released 1968

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 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 1:11:511:11:51

Play from 1:11:49 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 124 · shots 692–692. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
field (field, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • shirtless man, medium build, dark pants visible
  • indistinct figures in background, some standing, some moving visible
Seen happening
  • A shirtless man walks across a grassy field. [frame:1]
Seen
grass [frame:1], dark background with indistinct figures [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and ominous; themes: isolation, nighttime danger; style notes: low-key lighting, wide shot, black-and-white film stock, high contrast between subject and dark background

A shirtless man walks across a dark grassy field at night, with other figures visible in the background. The scene is shot in black and white with low ambient light and no visible artificial illumination.

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 1:11:51 (passage 1:11:49–1:11:54)

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