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night_of_the_living_dead_dvd · Beat 296 · permalink

Living room

1:20:22–1:20:56 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; 4 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 1:20:241:20:24Frame at 1:20:271:20:27Frame at 1:20:471:20:47Frame at 1:20:551:20:55

Play from 1:20:22 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 153 · shots 777–781. 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 with dark hair and beard, wearing a light shirt visible, audible
  • woman with dark hair, wearing a striped top visible
  • bald man in light shirt visible
  • child or small person, partially visible visible
Also said
“Well, two people are dead already on account of that guy. Take a look out that window for the kid.” 80:38 · “I'm sorry.” 80:46
Seen
gun [frame:3], window [frame:4], wall frame [frame:4]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and urgent; themes: survival under threat, interpersonal conflict during crisis; style notes: high-contrast black-and-white lighting, tight framing, shadowy interiors

A group of people are in a dark room; one person speaks about power lines being down and needing a gun while another mentions two deaths. The scene ends with an apology.

“The power lines are down.” 80:27 · “I have to get that gun.” 80:33 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 1:20:24 (passage 1:20:22–1:20:56)

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