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night_of_the_living_dead_dvd · Beat 64 · permalink

Living room

14:01–14:23 Released 1968

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 2 names 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 14:0314:03Frame at 14:0514:05Frame at 14:1014:10Frame at 14:1814:18

Play from 14:01 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 37 · shots 147–151. 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:4
People
  • woman with light-colored hair, wearing a light blouse, visible in profile visible
  • man with dark hair and beard, wearing a light shirt, holding a rifle visible, audible
Seen happening
  • The woman is visible in profile, looking toward the window. [frame:1]
  • The man is visible holding a rifle, looking forward. [frame:2]
  • The man leans forward, appearing to speak or react. [frame:3]
  • The man aims the rifle while the woman stands behind him in the background. [frame:4]
Also said
“I'm going to go.” 14:12 · “I suppose you've tried this.” 14:20
Seen
rifle [frame:2], window [frame:1], couch [frame:4]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: survival, isolation, resource scarcity; style notes: high-contrast black-and-white lighting, tight framing on faces and weapons, static camera shots

A man and a woman are inside a house; the man holds a rifle while the woman looks on. The transcript indicates they are discussing a truck out of gas and searching for a key to leave.

“Truck is out of gas.” 14:02 · “This clump out here is locked. Is there a key?” 14:03 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 14:03 (passage 14:01–14:23)

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