Public Reel

night_of_the_living_dead_dvd · Beat 317 · permalink

Beat 317

1:24:42–1:24:45 Released 1968

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 1 name checked for a spoken or on-screen source; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:24:441:24:44

Play from 1:24:42 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 161 · shots 864–864. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

People
  • Person with dark hair, visible from chin to forehead, mouth open, dark liquid dripping from chin; wearing a light-colored garment with dark pattern or stain near collar. visible
Seen
dark liquid
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; style notes: High-contrast black-and-white close-up, dramatic lighting emphasizing facial expression and dripping liquid.

A close-up shot shows a person's face tilted upward, mouth open, with dark liquid dripping from the chin. No location, time, or named individuals are identifiable from this single frame.

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.

Share

Paste the permalink anywhere that shows link previews and it carries the frame, the time and the finding. The card image can be saved and used with a credit.

Frame from night_of_the_living_dead_dvd (1968) at 1:24:44 (passage 1:24:42–1:24:45)

Permalink
always the current cut
Permalink to this version
warns if the beats are recut later
Card image
https://publicreel.org/cards/moment/night_of_the_living_dead_dvd/b317.png
Figure for a newsletter or page
Cite