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night_of_the_living_dead_dvd · Beat 60 · permalink

Interior

12:59–13:17 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; 1 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 13:0413:04Frame at 13:1013:10Frame at 13:1213:12Frame at 13:1513:15

Play from 12:59 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 37 · shots 129–132. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
interior (house, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • woman with long hair, wearing a light-colored top with a dark collar visible
  • decaying face with exposed teeth and one visible eye visible
Seen happening
  • A woman is seen crawling up a staircase in distress. [frame:1]
  • Close-up of the woman's face showing fear. [frame:2]
  • A close-up of a grotesque, decaying face is shown. [frame:3]
  • The woman is grabbed from behind by an unseen figure. [frame:4]
Seen
staircase [frame:1], balusters [frame:4]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and horrifying; themes: fear, vulnerability, horror; style notes: high-contrast black and white, tight close-ups, dramatic lighting emphasizing shadows and facial expressions

A woman is seen in distress on a staircase, followed by a close-up of her face and a grotesque, decaying face. The final frame shows her being grabbed from behind. No names or specific time of day are established.

“No!” 13:11 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 13:04 (passage 12:59–13:17)

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