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The General · Beat 101 · permalink

Living room

27:11–27:27 Released 1927; registered 1926

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 2 quotes checked against the transcript; 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 27:1627:16Frame at 27:2427:24

Play from 27:11 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 36 · shots 252–253. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
living_room (living room, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in dark coat, seen from back visible
  • man in light shirt leaning over table visible
  • man in dark coat, standing near doorway visible
Seen happening
  • A man in a light shirt leans over a table while others stand around. [frame:1]
Seen
table with white cloth [frame:1], metal pitcher on table [frame:1], wooden chairs [frame:1], wall-mounted picture [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: solemn; themes: ritual, gathering; style notes: static medium shot, dim warm lighting, period costumes, table-centered composition

Two frames show a dimly lit interior with several men in dark coats around a table covered with a white cloth; one man leans over the table. The transcript contains two spoken 'Amen' lines.

“Amen.” 27:12 · “Amen.” 27:13 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 27:16 (passage 27:11–27:27); US record: Copyright term expired

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