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The General · Beat 105 · permalink

Bedroom

28:36–29:40 Released 1927; registered 1926

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 1 quote checked against the transcript; 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 29:0829:08

Play from 28:36 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 37 · shots 258–258. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
bedroom (bedroom, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • dark clothing, bent over, partially obscured visible
  • lying on bed, covered by blankets, indistinct features visible
Seen
bed [frame:1], blankets [frame:1], bedposts [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: somber, quiet; themes: intimacy, disturbance, stillness; style notes: static shot, low-key lighting, high contrast, grainy film texture

A person is visible in a dimly lit interior, bending over a bed with another person lying on it. A bell rings off-screen at 28:53.

“*Bell rings*” 28:53 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 29:08 (passage 28:36–29:40); US record: Copyright term expired

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