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night_of_the_living_dead_dvd · Beat 42 · permalink

Road

8:58–9:10 Released 1968

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 8:598:59Frame at 9:019:01Frame at 9:049:04Frame at 9:089:08

Play from 8:58 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 31 · shots 86–89. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
road (road, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • person in light-colored clothing, medium build, visible from the side visible
  • person in dark clothing, medium build, seen from behind visible
Seen happening
  • A person leans into the driver's side of a parked car. [frame:1]
  • The person runs away from the car up a grassy slope. [frame:2]
  • A second person in dark clothing runs toward the car from behind a tree. [frame:3]
  • The view becomes obscured by dense foliage and indistinct movement. [frame:4]
Seen
car [frame:1], trees [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and urgent; themes: pursuit, isolation, nature as threat; style notes: low-angle shots, high-contrast black-and-white, handheld camera movement in final frame

A person interacts with a car on a wooded road, then runs away as another figure approaches. The scene ends with a chaotic view of foliage and movement in the woods.

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 8:59 (passage 8:58–9:10)

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