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night_of_the_living_dead_dvd · Beat 304 · permalink

Private office

1:23:51–1:24:01 Released 1968

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:23:531:23:53Frame at 1:23:581:23:58

Play from 1:23:51 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 153 · shots 844–845. 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
  • person seen from behind, wearing a light-colored top, leaning over a window frame visible
  • woman with light-colored hair, face partially in shadow, looking downward visible
Seen
window frame [frame:1], brick wall [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: isolation, fear; style notes: high-contrast black and white, tight framing, dramatic lighting

A person is seen from behind, leaning over a window frame in a dark room. A second frame shows a close-up of a woman's face, partially obscured by shadow, looking downward.

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 1:23:53 (passage 1:23:51–1:24:01)

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