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night_of_the_living_dead_dvd · Beat 89 · permalink

Private office

20:07–20:26 Released 1968

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 1 quote 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 20:1720:17

Play from 20:07 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 48 · shots 215–215. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
private_office (private office, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man, wearing light shirt and dark vest, medium build, visible in shadow visible
  • woman, dark hair, wearing light top, partially visible behind p1 visible
Seen
light source
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: survival, isolation, fear of darkness; style notes: high-contrast black-and-white lighting, tight framing, chiaroscuro shadows

A man and a woman are in a dimly lit interior; the man is told to turn on more lights. No names are spoken, and no period or time of day is established.

“Get some more lights on in this house.” 20:15 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 20:17 (passage 20:07–20:26)

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