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Private office

26:53–27:11 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 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 26:5926:59Frame at 27:0827:08

Play from 26:53 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 36 · shots 250–251. 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 wearing a hat and dark coat, entering through a door visible
  • man in dark coat with back turned, carrying a satchel visible
Seen
{'item': 'wooden door', 'frame': 1}, {'item': "satchel or pouch on man's hip", 'frame': 1}, {'item': 'table with papers and a hat', 'frame': 2}
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense or secretive; themes: concealment, interior space as a site of action; style notes: static medium shots, dim lighting, high contrast typical of 1920s silent film

Two men are seen inside a wooden-paneled room; one enters through a door while the other stands with his back turned. A second frame shows a cluttered table with objects including what appears to be a hat and papers, viewed from above.

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 26:59 (passage 26:53–27:11); US record: Copyright term expired

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