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night_of_the_living_dead_dvd · Beat 281 · permalink

Living room

1:15:16–1:15:29 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; 2 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 1:15:221:15:22

Play from 1:15:16 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 145 · shots 729–729. 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
  • man, balding, wearing light shirt, seated, hand near mouth visible
  • woman, dark hair, wearing light dress, standing in doorway, hands near face visible
Also said
“Only ten more minutes?” 75:24 · “We don't have very long to wait.” 75:27
Seen
doorway, vase with flowers, dark furniture (possibly piano or cabinet)
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense anticipation; themes: waiting, media dependency, isolation; style notes: static medium shot, high-contrast black-and-white, minimal set, focused on character reactions

A man sits in a dim room while a woman stands in a doorway; they discuss waiting for a broadcast at three o'clock. The scene is indoors, with minimal props and no visible clock or window to establish time of day.

“There's supposed to be another broadcast at three o'clock.” 75:18 · “Ten minutes.” 75:21 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 1:15:22 (passage 1:15:16–1:15:29)

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