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Private office

0:00–0:36 Released 1927; registered 1926

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 2 quotes checked against the transcript; 3 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 0:180:18

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Evidence and details

Starts here: start of film. Sequence 1 · shots 0–0. 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 in dark suit, bowler hat, bow tie, standing visible
  • man in dark suit, partially visible on right visible
  • man in dark suit, partially visible behind p2 visible
Seen
{'item': 'wood-paneled wall', 'frame': 1}, {'item': 'framed picture with lattice design', 'frame': 1}, {'item': 'bowler hat', 'frame': 1}, {'item': 'bow tie', 'frame': 1}
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: solemn; themes: formality, ritual; style notes: static medium shot, dim lighting, formal attire, wood paneling suggests interior formality

A man in a dark suit and bowler hat stands in a dimly lit interior with wood paneling and a framed picture; two other men are partially visible. The transcript contains two instances of the word 'Amen' spoken at 0:12 and 0:17.

“Amen.” 0:12 · “Amen.” 0:17 automatic transcript, may be wrong

The record

Copyright term expired The copyright term began before 1931. Under US law every such term, renewed or not, ended before 2026-01-01. Evidence dossier. 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 The General (1927) at 0:18 (passage 0:00–0:36); US record: Copyright term expired

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