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Rural road

0:58–1:15 Released 1968

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 1 quote checked against the transcript; 1 name checked for a spoken or on-screen source; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:021:02Frame at 1:111:11

Play from 0:58 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: on-screen text appears or ends. Sequence 3 · shots 2–3. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
rural road (road, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • unseen, voice only audible
Seen
road, rolling hills, bare trees, end credit text overlays
On screen
R. STREINER Special Effe CHARLE / Script Continuity Sound Engineers: GARY R. STREINER MARSHALL BOOTH Special Effects: REGIS SLUTSKY, TONY PANTANELLI Make-up: HARDMAN ASSOC., INC. Props: CHARLES D. LAY Title Sequence: THE ANIMATORS Script Coordination: JACQUELINE STREINER Continuity: BETTY ELLEN ANDREWS Hair Styles: BRUCE CAPRISTO
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: ominous; themes: isolation, end credits, rural setting; style notes: black-and-white, wide landscape shots, static camera, text overlays dominate the frame

The beat shows a rural road with rolling hills and bare trees, overlaid with end credits for the film's crew. A voice exclaims 'Oh, my God' at 1:00. No characters are visible or named in this segment.

“Oh, my God.” 1:00 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 1:02 (passage 0:58–1:15)

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