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night_of_the_living_dead_dvd · Beat 318 · permalink

Interior

1:24:45–1:25:14 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; 2 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 1:24:461:24:46Frame at 1:24:561:24:56Frame at 1:25:001:25:00Frame at 1:25:101:25:10

Play from 1:24:45 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 161 · shots 865–870. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
interior (other, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • long dark hair, light-colored clothing, appears to be a woman, visible in distress visible, audible
  • dark, indistinct shadowy figure, no discernible features visible
Seen happening
  • A person is screaming and struggling in a dark space. [frame:1]
  • A shadowy figure is seen moving toward the struggling person. [frame:3]
  • The person is shown in close-up, screaming with hands raised in defense or fear. [frame:4]
Seen
shadowy figure [frame:3], light-colored clothing [frame:4]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: terrifying, chaotic; themes: fear, helplessness, invasion; style notes: high-contrast black and white, tight close-ups, shaky camera, obscured figures

A person is shown in distress in a dark interior, screaming and struggling as a shadowy figure approaches. The transcript contains repeated exclamations of 'No!' and a command to 'Get out!'

“No! No! No! No! No! No! No! No! No! Get out!” 84:46 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 1:24:46 (passage 1:24:45–1:25:14)

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