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night_of_the_living_dead_dvd · Beat 300 · permalink

Private office

1:22:10–1:22:41 Released 1968

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 2 quotes checked against the transcript; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 2 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:22:111:22:11Frame at 1:22:241:22:24Frame at 1:22:331:22:33Frame at 1:22:401:22:40

Play from 1:22:10 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 153 · shots 810–829. 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:1
People
  • woman, dark hair, wearing a light-colored top with a dark collar visible
  • man, balding, wearing a light-colored shirt, appears older visible
Seen happening
  • A woman looks alarmed in a dark room. [frame:1]
  • A man is seen in a dark room, mouth open as if shouting or screaming. [frame:2]
  • A man is shown from above, appearing to be struggling or being held down. [frame:3]
  • A man looks upward with a terrified expression, his neck and collar visible. [frame:4]
Seen
wooden door frame [frame:1], light-colored shirt [frame:2, frame:4], dark collar [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and panicked; themes: fear, confinement, imminent danger; style notes: high-contrast black and white, tight close-ups, dramatic lighting from below or side

A woman and a man are shown in a dark interior, reacting with alarm to an off-screen command to move to the cellar. The man appears to be struggling or being restrained.

“Get the cellar now. Move!” 82:13 · “Oh, my God.” 82:16 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 1:22:11 (passage 1:22:10–1:22:41)

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