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night_of_the_living_dead_dvd · Beat 319 · permalink

Private office

1:25:14–1:25:30 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; 0 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:25:181:25:18Frame at 1:25:231:25:23Frame at 1:25:271:25:27

Play from 1:25:14 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 161 · shots 871–873. 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:2
People
  • adult, dark clothing, visible in frame 2 visible
  • Daddy (named at t:85:16): child, light scarf or collar, screaming face in frame 3 visible, audible
Seen happening
  • A person is grabbed from behind in darkness. [frame:1]
  • A man looks up in terror as a gloved hand reaches toward him. [frame:2]
  • A child screams with mouth wide open. [frame:3]
Seen
gloved hand, wooden paneling or door, scarf or neckerchief
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: panic; themes: fear, helplessness, family; style notes: high-contrast black and white, tight close-ups, dramatic lighting from below

A person is shown screaming and being grabbed in a dark interior. The transcript includes cries for help and a child calling out to 'Daddy'.

“No! No! Daddy! No! No! No! Oh, help me! Help me! Oh, help me!” 85:16 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 1:25:18 (passage 1:25:14–1:25:30)

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