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night_of_the_living_dead_dvd · Beat 80 · permalink

Vehicle interior

16:38–16:44 Released 1968

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 16:3916:39Frame at 16:4016:40Frame at 16:4116:41Frame at 16:4316:43

Play from 16:38 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 46 · shots 175–178. 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:2
People
  • person with hand near face, dark clothing, visible in shadow visible
  • person with light-colored hair, wearing collared shirt, face in shadow visible
Seen happening
  • A person raises a hand near their face in a dark interior. [frame:1]
  • A vehicle's headlight and grille are visible in darkness. [frame:2]
  • A person's shoulder and neck are visible in shadow. [frame:3]
  • A man's face is shown in close-up, partially lit and in shadow. [frame:4]
Seen
vehicle headlight [frame:2], vehicle grille [frame:2], collared shirt [frame:4]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and ominous; themes: confinement, fear, isolation; style notes: high-contrast black-and-white lighting, tight close-ups, shadow-heavy framing

A person is shown in close-up with a hand near their face, followed by a vehicle's headlight and grille in darkness, then a partial view of a person's shoulder and neck, and finally a close-up of a man's face in shadow. No dialogue or on-screen text is present in this beat.

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 16:39 (passage 16:38–16:44)

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