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night_of_the_living_dead_dvd · Beat 352 · permalink

Field

1:32:12–1:32:51 Released 1968

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 4 quotes 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 1:32:141:32:14Frame at 1:32:211:32:21Frame at 1:32:341:32:34Frame at 1:32:461:32:46

Play from 1:32:12 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 184 · shots 936–939. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
field (field, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • visible in outdoor group, wearing dark clothing, standing among trees visible
  • visible in outdoor group, wearing light shirt and dark pants, holding a rifle visible
  • visible indoors, wearing light shirt and dark pants, standing near a doorway visible
Seen happening
  • A group of people is gathered outside near trees and a field. [frame:1]
  • A person is seen climbing or moving inside a structure with wooden beams. [frame:2]
  • A group of people, including one holding a rifle, walks along a path near trees. [frame:3]
  • A person stands inside a room next to a bed and a framed picture on the wall. [frame:4]
Also said
“You, drag that out of here and throw it on the fire.” 92:40 · “Let's go check out the house. There's something here. I heard a noise. Oh.” 92:46
Seen
rifle, bed, framed picture, doorway
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and urgent; themes: survival, group coordination, suspicion of unseen threats; style notes: black-and-white, high-contrast lighting, medium to long shots outdoors, tight interior framing

A group of people is outside near trees and a field, with one person being told to build a bonfire; another scene shows a person inside a room with a bed and a framed picture on the wall. No names are spoken that can be linked to specific individuals in the frames.

“Easy, Dezlin, get up here!” 92:19 · “Steve, you want to get out in that field and build me a bonfire?” 92:24 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 1:32:14 (passage 1:32:12–1:32:51)

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