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night_of_the_living_dead_dvd · Beat 90 · permalink

Living room

20:26–20:59 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; 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 2 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 20:2820:28Frame at 20:3720:37Frame at 20:4820:48Frame at 20:5620:56

Play from 20:26 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 48 · shots 216–220. 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
  • woman with long blonde hair, wearing a light-colored coat visible
  • man with dark skin, wearing a light shirt and a watch visible
  • person lying down, partially visible, wearing light-colored clothing visible
Seen happening
  • A woman stands near a doorway and a refrigerator. [frame:2]
  • A man searches through a drawer filled with small objects. [frame:3]
  • A man leans over and tends to a person lying down. [frame:4]
Also said
“I'm going to go.” 20:41 · “Why don't you see if you can find some wood, some boards, something about a fireplace, something we can nail this place up.” 20:52
Seen
refrigerator [frame:1], drawer with small objects [frame:3], watch on man's wrist [frame:3]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: survival, isolation, resource scarcity; style notes: static medium shots, high-contrast black-and-white lighting, confined interior framing

A woman in a coat is seen near a doorway and a refrigerator; a man searches through a drawer and then tends to another person lying down. A voice suggests finding wood or boards to barricade the location.

“I” 20:37 · “I'm going to go.” 20:39 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 20:28 (passage 20:26–20:59)

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