Editing Night of the Living Dead (section)

==== Principal photography ====
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The small budget dictated much of the production process.<ref name="Hardman/Eastmaninterview"/>{{sfn|Newman|2000|p=57}} Scenes were filmed near [[Evans City, Pennsylvania|Evans City]], Pennsylvania, {{convert|30|mi|km}} north of Pittsburgh in rural [[Butler County, Pennsylvania|Butler County]];{{sfn|Kane|2010|p=46}} the opening sequence was shot at the Evans City Cemetery on Franklin Road, south of the borough.{{sfn|Kane|2010|pages=55–6}}{{efn|In 2011, when the cemetery chapel was under warrant for demolition, Gary R. Steiner led a successful effort to raise funding to restore the building.<ref name="fix">{{cite web |url=http://www.fixthechapel.com/ |title=Save the Evans City Cemetery Chapel |access-date=October 4, 2013 |archive-date=October 5, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131005173755/http://www.fixthechapel.com/ |publisher=Living Dead Festival, LLC}}</ref><ref name="trib">{{cite news |last=Farkas |first=Rachel |date=August 31, 2013 |url=https://archive.triblive.com/news/zombie-fans-celebrate-iconic-night-of-the-living-dead-in-evans-city/ |title=Zombie Fans Celebrate Iconic 'Night of the Living Dead' |access-date=October 4, 2013 |archive-date=November 16, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181116014144/https://triblive.com/mobile/4609845-96/dead-evans-living |url-status=live |newspaper=TribLIVE |publisher=Trib Total Media}}</ref>}} Lacking the money to build or purchase a house for the main set, the filmmakers rented a nearby farmhouse scheduled for demolition. Though it lacked running water, some crew members slept there during the shooting, taking baths in a nearby creek.{{sfn|Hervey|2008|pp=10–11}} The building's neglected cellar was not a viable location for filming, so the few basement scenes were shot beneath The Latent Image offices.{{sfn|Kane|2010|pp=28, 29, 59}} The basement door shown in the film was cut into a wall by the production team and led nowhere.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://screenrant.com/night-of-the-living-dead-1968-hidden-details-trivia/ |title=10 Hidden Details Everyone Missed In Night Of The Living Dead |first=Colin |last=McCormick |date=February 4, 2021 |website=ScreenRant |access-date=September 2, 2023 |archive-date=September 2, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230902053222/https://screenrant.com/night-of-the-living-dead-1968-hidden-details-trivia/ |url-status=live}}</ref>

[[Theatrical property|Props]] and [[special effect]]s were simple and limited by the budget. The blood, for example, was [[Bosco Chocolate Syrup]] drizzled over cast members' bodies.{{sfn|Kane|2010|p=n184}} The human flesh consumed by ghouls consisted of meat and [[offal]] donated by an investor's butcher shop.{{sfn|Hoberman|Rosenbaum|1983|p=121}}<ref>{{cite web |url=https://daily.jstor.org/the-d-i-y-origins-of-night-of-the-living-dead/ |title=The D-I-Y Origins of Night of the Living Dead |first=Elizabeth |last=Winterhalter |date=November 5, 2020 |website=JSTOR Daily |access-date=September 2, 2023 |archive-date=September 2, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230902063336/https://daily.jstor.org/the-d-i-y-origins-of-night-of-the-living-dead/ |url-status=live}}</ref> Zombie makeup varied during the film. Initially, makeup was limited to white skin with blackened eyes. As filming progressed, mortician's wax simulated wounds and decaying flesh.{{sfn|Kane|2010|pp=47–49, 58}} Filming took place between July 1967 and January 1968 under various titles. Work began under the generic working title ''Monster Flick'', was changed to ''Night of Anubis'' after Romero's short story that provided the basis for the script, and was completed as ''Night of the Flesh Eaters'', a title not used in the final release due to a potential conflict with a [[The Flesh Eaters (film)|similarly named film]].<ref name="Scrapbook, Special Features 2002">{{cite AV media |people=Romero, George A. |display-authors=etal |title=Scrapbook |work=Night of the Living Dead |publisher=Elite Entertainment |year=2002 |type=DVD |series=Millennium Edition}}</ref>{{sfn|Heffernan|2004|p=219}}<ref>{{cite web |url=https://horrorstudies.library.pitt.edu/content/night-flesh-eaters-mini-banners |title=Night of the Flesh Eaters Mini-Banners |website=Horror Studies Collection |publisher=University of Pittsburgh Library Systems |last=Hart |first=Adam Charles |access-date=September 2, 2023 |archive-date=September 2, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230902060824/https://horrorstudies.library.pitt.edu/content/night-flesh-eaters-mini-banners |url-status=live}}</ref> The small budget led Romero to shoot on [[35mm movie film|35 mm]] black-and-white film. The completed film ultimately benefited from the decision, as film historian Joseph Maddrey describes the black-and-white filming as "[[guerrilla filmmaking|guerrilla-style]]", resembling "the unflinching authority of a wartime newsreel". He found the [[exploitation film]] to resemble a documentary on social instability.{{sfn|Maddrey|2004|p=51}}