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night_of_the_living_dead_dvd · Beat 286 · permalink

Living room

1:16:49–1:17:13 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; 6 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 1:16:521:16:52Frame at 1:16:561:16:56Frame at 1:17:031:17:03Frame at 1:17:101:17:10

Play from 1:16:49 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 148 · shots 750–754. 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:3
Time of day
night evidence: frame:4
People
  • man, dark hair, wearing a white shirt visible
  • bald man, bruised face, wearing a light shirt and tie visible
  • woman, blonde, wearing a sleeveless top and scarf visible
  • man, wearing a light shirt, leaning over p3 visible
  • man, standing near p3 and p4, wearing a light shirt visible
  • figures outside, indistinct, moving near fire visible
Seen happening
  • A man in a white shirt is shown in close-up, looking down. [frame:1]
  • A bald man with a bruised face crouches and looks toward the camera. [frame:2]
  • A woman sits on a couch as a man leans over her; another man stands nearby. [frame:3]
  • Figures move outside at night near a burning structure as people flee. [frame:4]
Also said
“I'm going to go.” 76:59 · “Good Lord.” 77:11
Seen
couch, burning structure, fire
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and urgent; themes: survival, panic, isolation; style notes: black-and-white, high-contrast lighting, medium and wide shots, static camera

A man in a white shirt is shown in close-up, then a bald man with a bruised face is seen crouching. A woman sits on a couch as a man leans over her, while another man stands nearby. Outside at night, figures move near a burning structure as people flee.

“You have a car? Where? Where is it?” 76:51 · “You won't be able to start it. Yeah, yeah, I know. But where is it? Ah, I don't know.” 76:54 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 1:16:52 (passage 1:16:49–1:17:13)

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