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night_of_the_living_dead_dvd · Beat 336 · permalink

Private office

1:27:41–1:28:08 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; 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 2 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:27:461:27:46Frame at 1:27:551:27:55Frame at 1:28:001:28:00Frame at 1:28:061:28:06

Play from 1:27:41 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 171 · shots 903–910. 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
  • man, white shirt, dark hair, side profile visible
  • woman, dark hair, face with dark streaks running down visible
  • man, bearded, dark hair, looking down visible
Seen happening
  • A man in a white shirt is shown in profile. [frame:1]
  • The man is shown holding a telephone receiver to his ear. [frame:2]
  • A woman's face is shown with dark streaks running down it. [frame:3]
  • A bearded man is shown looking down. [frame:4]
Seen
telephone receiver [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: distress, communication under pressure; style notes: high-contrast black and white, tight close-ups, dramatic lighting

A man in a white shirt is shown in close-up, followed by a shot of a woman's face with dark streaks, then a bearded man. The transcript contains the line 'Come on.'

“Come on.” 87:46 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 1:27:46 (passage 1:27:41–1:28:08)

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