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night_of_the_living_dead_dvd · Beat 270 · permalink

Private office

1:12:54–1:13:26 Released 1968

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 1 quote checked against the transcript; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 2 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:12:561:12:56Frame at 1:13:091:13:09Frame at 1:13:221:13:22Frame at 1:13:251:13:25

Play from 1:12:54 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 138 · shots 712–715. 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
  • bald man, light shirt, medium build visible
  • man with dark hair, light shirt, holding rifle visible
Seen happening
  • A bald man stands in a dim room. [frame:1]
  • A hand holds a rifle in a blurry close-up. [frame:2]
  • A bald man is seen in profile against a wall. [frame:3]
  • A man with dark hair holds a rifle and looks at someone off-screen. [frame:4]
Seen
rifle [frame:2], rifle [frame:4]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: confrontation, survival; style notes: high-contrast black and white, tight framing, handheld or shaky camera implied by blur

A man in a light shirt is visible in a dim interior, followed by a blurry close-up of a hand holding a rifle. Another man appears in profile, then a third man is seen holding a rifle while looking at someone off-screen. The transcript contains the line 'Come on.'

“Come on.” 72:56 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 1:12:56 (passage 1:12:54–1:13:26)

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