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night_of_the_living_dead_dvd · Beat 63 · permalink

Living room

13:41–14:01 Released 1968

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 2 quotes checked against the transcript; 1 name checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 13:4813:48Frame at 13:5713:57Frame at 14:0114:01

Play from 13:41 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 37 · shots 144–146. 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:2
People
  • man, dark hair, wearing a light-colored shirt and dark pants, medium build visible, audible
Seen happening
  • A man stands in a doorway, looking off-camera with a serious expression. [frame:1]
  • The man moves across a dim room, passing a radiator and a doorway. [frame:2]
  • The man leans against a doorframe, looking tense and alert. [frame:3]
Seen
radiator, doorframe, curtains
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and foreboding; themes: isolation, impending threat, self-reliance; style notes: high-contrast black and white, tight framing, use of shadows to create suspense

A man in a light shirt moves through a dim interior room, speaking reassuringly. He appears to be preparing to confront others, as suggested by his dialogue about handling someone and expecting more arrivals.

“It's all right.” 13:48 · “Don't worry about him, I can handle him. There'll probably be a lot more of them as soon as they find out about us.” 13:53 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 13:48 (passage 13:41–14:01)

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