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night_of_the_living_dead_dvd · Beat 62 · permalink

Field

13:30–13:41 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; 1 name checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 13:3113:31Frame at 13:3413:34Frame at 13:3613:36Frame at 13:4013:40

Play from 13:30 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 37 · shots 137–143. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
field (field, exterior) evidence: frame:3
Time of day
night evidence: frame:1
People
  • man, middle-aged, wearing a light-colored shirt and dark jacket, visible in low light visible
Seen happening
  • A man is shown in a close-up, looking alarmed. [frame:1]
  • The man is shown in profile, looking off-camera with a tense expression. [frame:2]
  • The man is shown standing in a dark field, looking startled. [frame:3]
  • A figure is shown moving near a doorway or window frame. [frame:4]
Seen
jacket [frame:3], shirt [frame:3]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: fear, isolation; style notes: low-key lighting, high contrast, close framing on faces, grainy black-and-white film stock

A man is shown in close-up and medium shots in a dark outdoor setting, reacting with alarm. He is visible in frames 1-3, and a fourth frame shows a figure moving near a doorway. The transcript contains one expletive.

“Shit.” 13:41 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 13:31 (passage 13:30–13:41)

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