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night_of_the_living_dead_dvd · Beat 82 · permalink

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17:05–17:23 Released 1968

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 1 name checked for a spoken or on-screen source; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 17:0617:06Frame at 17:0817:08Frame at 17:1217:12Frame at 17:1817:18

Play from 17:05 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 46 · shots 180–184. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
other (other, interior) evidence: frame:4
People
  • A person with dark hair and a visible ear, seen in profile or from behind. Wearing a dark, possibly textured garment. Face is partially obscured by shadow. visible
Seen
textured surface [frame:1, frame:2, frame:3], door frame or wall [frame:4]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and claustrophobic; themes: isolation, confinement; style notes: High-contrast black-and-white cinematography with deep shadows and minimal lighting. Tight framing on the subject creates a sense of confinement.

A person is shown in close-up in a dark, confined space across four frames. The lighting is stark and high-contrast, revealing only partial features and a textured surface nearby.

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 17:06 (passage 17:05–17:23)

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