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night_of_the_living_dead_dvd · Beat 346 · permalink

Field

1:30:55–1:31:19 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 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:31:061:31:06Frame at 1:31:181:31:18

Play from 1:30:55 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 179 · shots 925–926. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
field (field, exterior) evidence: frame:2
People
  • man with dark hair, wearing a light-colored shirt, seen in close-up visible
  • person wearing dark pants, visible from waist down visible
Seen happening
  • A man in a light shirt is shown in a close-up indoors. [frame:1]
  • A dog lies on grass near a person's legs outdoors. [frame:2]
Seen
dog, grass, dark pants
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: survival, group coordination, rural setting; style notes: black-and-white, medium close-up indoors followed by wide outdoor shot, natural lighting outdoors

A man in a light shirt is seen in a close-up indoors, followed by an outdoor shot of a dog lying on grass near a person's legs. The transcript mentions needing men to check a house and references a cookout near a barn.

“They need you down there by the barn. Okay. I'm going to need a few men to check out the house. Somebody had a cook out here, Vince.” 91:10 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 1:31:06 (passage 1:30:55–1:31:19)

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