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The General · Beat 10 · permalink

Union encampment

3:00–3:15 Released 1927; registered 1926

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Frame at 3:083:08

Play from 3:00 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 5 · shots 28–28. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
Union encampment (camp, exterior) evidence: frame:1
On screen
A year later In a Union encampment just North of Chattanooga
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: neutral; themes: time passage, military setting; style notes: static title card with blue background and white text, typical of silent film intertitles

The beat shows a title card indicating a time jump of one year and a location shift to a Union encampment north of Chattanooga. No people, objects, or actions are visible in the frame.

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 3:08 (passage 3:00–3:15); US record: Copyright term expired

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