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night_of_the_living_dead_dvd · Beat 83 · permalink

Living room

17:23–18:53 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; 4 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 17:2517:25Frame at 17:5117:51Frame at 18:0818:08Frame at 18:4318:43

Play from 17:23 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 46 · shots 185–200. 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:1
People
  • person lying down, wearing light-colored clothing, visible in frame 1 visible
  • person standing in doorway, wearing light-colored top, holding an object, visible in frame 2 visible
  • person on floor, wearing light-colored clothing, reaching for an object, visible in frame 3 visible
  • person standing near sink, wearing light-colored shirt, back to camera, visible in frame 4 visible
Seen happening
  • A person is lying down in a dark room. [frame:1]
  • A person stands in a doorway holding an object, with others visible behind them. [frame:2]
  • A person is on the floor reaching for an object. [frame:3]
  • A person stands near a sink with their back to the camera. [frame:4]
Also said
“Oh, my God.” 18:23 · “Come on.” 18:48
Seen
gun [frame:2], sink [frame:4], doorway [frame:1], floor [frame:3]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: fear, confinement, survival; style notes: black-and-white, high-contrast lighting, tight framing on characters, static camera shots

A person is seen lying down and then moving in a dark interior space while another person is visible in a doorway; a third person is shown near a sink. The transcript contains repeated exclamations of 'Oh, my God' and a command to 'Come on.'

“Oh, my God.” 17:23 · “Oh, my God.” 17:53 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 17:25 (passage 17:23–18:53)

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