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night_of_the_living_dead_dvd · Beat 285 · permalink

Private office

1:16:30–1:16:49 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 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:16:311:16:31Frame at 1:16:371:16:37Frame at 1:16:441:16:44Frame at 1:16:481:16:48

Play from 1:16:30 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 148 · shots 739–749. 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:3
People
  • balding man, bruised left cheek, wearing light shirt and patterned tie visible
  • woman with dark hair, wearing striped short-sleeve top visible
Seen happening
  • Man with bruised face looks down and to his right. [frame:1]
  • Woman stands in doorway, arms crossed, looking toward the man. [frame:3]
Also said
“Is she conscious?” 76:36 · “She can't walk. She's too weak.” 76:39
Seen
doorway [frame:3], patterned tie [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and concerned; themes: survival under threat, physical injury and weakness, group decision-making under stress; style notes: black-and-white, tight close-ups on faces, high-contrast lighting

A man with a bruised face is seen in close-up, appearing distressed, while a woman stands in a doorway. Dialogue indicates concern for an unconscious, weak person and a plan to reach a car.

“What's wrong?” 76:31 · “Who knows what kind of disease those things carry.” 76:33 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 1:16:31 (passage 1:16:30–1:16:49)

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