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night_of_the_living_dead_dvd · Beat 8 · permalink

Vehicle interior

2:46–3:09 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 2:552:55Frame at 3:073:07

Play from 2:46 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 11–12. 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
People
  • blonde woman, seen from behind, wearing light-colored coat visible
  • Johnny (named at t:2:52): man with dark hair, wearing glasses and dark suit, visible in driver's seat visible, audible
Also said
“Johnny, it takes you five minutes...” 2:52 · “Yeah, five minutes to put the wreath on the grave and six hours to drive back and forth. Mother wants to remember, so we trot 200 miles into the country and she stays at home. Well, we're here, John, all right?” 2:54
Seen
car interior, glasses
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and conversational; themes: family obligation, memory, travel; style notes: black-and-white, medium close-up shots from outside the car, naturalistic lighting

Two people are in a vehicle interior, one speaking about a trip to a grave and their mother's wishes. The conversation references a person named Johnny and a long drive.

“I don't.” 2:48 · “You know, I don't even remember what the man looks like.” 2:49 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 2:55 (passage 2:46–3:09)

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