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night_of_the_living_dead_dvd · Beat 302 · permalink

Private office

1:23:00–1:23:23 Released 1968

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 1 quote checked against the transcript; 3 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 1:23:031:23:03Frame at 1:23:111:23:11Frame at 1:23:211:23:21Frame at 1:23:221:23:22

Play from 1:23:00 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 836–840. 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
  • man, balding, wearing light shirt, medium build visible
  • shadowy figure, indistinct features visible
  • person lying down, wearing light clothing visible
Seen happening
  • man reaches toward a wall or door frame [frame:1]
  • shadowy figure appears on staircase [frame:2]
  • person lies motionless on a surface [frame:3]
  • man covers his face with his hands [frame:4]
Seen
wall or door frame [frame:1], staircase [frame:2], stone wall [frame:4]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: isolation, fear, confinement; style notes: high-contrast black-and-white, tight framing, shadow-heavy lighting

A man in a light shirt is seen in a dark, confined space, interacting with a wall or door frame; a shadowy figure appears on a staircase, and another person lies motionless on a surface. The man later covers his face with his hands against a stone wall.

“Come on.” 83:16 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 1:23:03 (passage 1:23:00–1:23:23)

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