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night_of_the_living_dead_dvd · Beat 7 · permalink

Vehicle interior

2:11–2:46 Released 1968

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 2:152:15Frame at 2:322:32

Play from 2:11 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech; cut falls inside a spoken line: no pause was available without exceeding the length cap. Sequence 6 · shots 9–10. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
vehicle_interior (vehicle interior, interior) evidence: frame:1
Time of day
daytime evidence: t:2:17
People
  • woman with blonde hair, wearing a light-colored top, visible in driver's seat visible, audible
  • Johnny (named at t:2:23): man with dark hair, wearing glasses and a dark suit, visible in passenger seat visible, audible
Also said
“You think I want to blow Sunday on a scene like this? You know, I figure we're either going to have to move Mother out here or move the grave into Pittsburgh. She can't make a trip like this.” 2:30 · “No. Look at this thing. We still remember.” 2:44
Seen
car interior, glasses
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and weary; themes: family obligation, grief, travel fatigue; style notes: black-and-white, tight two-shots inside a car, naturalistic lighting from windows

Two people are in a car, discussing a long drive home and the difficulty of visiting a grave. The conversation mentions daylight saving time and a mother who cannot travel.

“They ought to make the day the time changes, the first day of summer.” 2:14 · “Now, we've still got a three-hour drive back. We're not going to be home until after midnight. Well, if it really bugged you, Johnny, you wouldn't do it.” 2:23 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 2:15 (passage 2:11–2:46)

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