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night_of_the_living_dead_dvd · Beat 305 · permalink

Basement

1:24:01–1:24:21 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; 4 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:24:031:24:03Frame at 1:24:081:24:08Frame at 1:24:111:24:11Frame at 1:24:181:24:18

Play from 1:24:01 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 153 · shots 846–851. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
basement (other, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • person lying on floor, wearing light shirt, dark pants, male visible
  • standing figure, wearing light dress, long hair, female visible
  • woman with dark hair, wearing light top, seated or leaning against wall visible
  • child with light hair, wearing dark dress, mouth open, arms extended visible
Seen happening
  • A person lies on the floor while another stands over them. [frame:1]
  • A woman looks on with a distressed expression. [frame:2]
  • A child is shown reaching forward with an open mouth. [frame:4]
Seen
wooden ladder [frame:1], stone wall [frame:3]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and ominous; themes: fear, helplessness, childhood innocence corrupted; style notes: high-contrast black-and-white, tight framing, low-angle shots, chiaroscuro lighting

A person lies on the ground while another stands over them; a woman looks on with concern. A child is shown in a dark space, reaching forward with an open mouth.

“No!” 84:16 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 1:24:03 (passage 1:24:01–1:24:21)

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