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night_of_the_living_dead_dvd · Beat 298 · permalink

Private office

1:21:23–1:21:44 Released 1968

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 4 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:21:251:21:25Frame at 1:21:321:21:32Frame at 1:21:361:21:36Frame at 1:21:431:21:43

Play from 1:21:23 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech; cut falls inside a spoken line: no pause was available without exceeding the length cap. Sequence 153 · shots 787–797. 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:2
People
  • bald man, wearing light-colored shirt, seen in close-up with dramatic lighting visible
  • man in dark coat, medium build, walking past window visible
  • man with short dark hair, wearing light shirt, looking forward visible
  • man in light shirt and dark pants, leaning over wooden structure visible
Seen happening
  • A bald man is shown in close-up, lit from one side. [frame:1]
  • A man in a dark coat walks past a window while others sit inside. [frame:2]
  • A man with short dark hair looks forward in a medium shot. [frame:3]
  • A man in a light shirt leans over a wooden structure. [frame:4]
Seen
wooden window frame [frame:2], wooden structure [frame:4]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and shadowy; themes: isolation, confinement, suspense; style notes: high-contrast black-and-white lighting, tight framing, static camera shots

A man in a dark room is shown in close-up, then a man in a dark coat walks past a window while others sit inside, followed by a medium shot of a man in a light shirt, and finally a man in a light shirt leans over a wooden structure. No dialogue or on-screen text is present.

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 1:21:25 (passage 1:21:23–1:21:44)

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