Among the materials for Night of the Living Dead, we found a handwritten sheet of notebook paper with the heading "20 or 25 Cities" at the top. It took us a minute, but we soon figured out what it was: this list would become the crawl at the bottom of the screen during the news broadcast in Night. These are all the safe destinations for survivors in southwest Pennsylvania as the dead begin to rise....

As someone who has screened Night for a class at the University of Pittsburgh, I might have been a bit more attuned to some of those locations than others. As the crawl proceeded, there was murmuring in the classroom as students started recognizing not just the cities but, sometimes, the actual buildings. This culminated in the Pittsburgh location - "Oakland Medical Center" - only a couple blocks away from our classroom. 

-Adam Charles Hart