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night_of_the_living_dead_dvd · Beat 303 · permalink

Private office

1:23:23–1:23:51 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; 5 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:23:311:23:31Frame at 1:23:421:23:42Frame at 1:23:481:23:48

Play from 1:23:23 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 841–843. 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 dark shirt and pants, kneeling visible
  • person lying on floor, partially visible, dark clothing visible
  • person with hands gripping throat, wearing light-colored shirt, close-up visible
  • unidentifiable dark shape, possibly a hand or object visible
  • unspecified, voice only audible
Seen happening
  • A man kneels beside a wall while another person lies on the floor. [frame:1]
  • Close-up of hands gripping a person's throat. [frame:2]
  • A dark, blurry shape is visible, possibly a hand or object moving. [frame:3]
Seen
wall [frame:1], floor [frame:1], hands [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: violence, helplessness; style notes: high-contrast black and white, tight close-ups, static camera

A man is seen kneeling by a wall while a person lies on the floor; a close-up shows hands gripping a throat; a final frame shows a dark, indistinct shape. A voice says "Oh, baby."

“Oh, baby.” 83:46 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 1:23:31 (passage 1:23:23–1:23:51)

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