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night_of_the_living_dead_dvd · Beat 56 · permalink

Living room

12:44–12:46 Released 1968

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 1 name checked for a spoken or on-screen source; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 12:4512:45

Play from 12:44 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 34 · shots 125–125. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
living_room (living room, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • light-haired person, seen in profile, wearing dark clothing visible
Seen
conical decorated object [frame:1], window with light [frame:1], furniture (partial) [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense or contemplative; themes: isolation, domestic space under threat; style notes: black-and-white, high-contrast lighting, tight framing on profile and object

A person with light hair is seen in profile, looking at a conical, decorated object on a table. The setting appears to be an interior room with dim lighting and a window visible in the background.

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 12:45 (passage 12:44–12:46)

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