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The General · Beat 107 · permalink

Underwater

29:57–32:21 Released 1927; registered 1926

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 4 quotes checked against the transcript; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 31:0931:09

Play from 29:57 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 37 · shots 261–261. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
underwater (other, exterior) evidence: frame:1
Also said
“Amen.” 31:11 · “Amen.” 31:15
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: ambiguous; style notes: static underwater shot with blue monochrome; no visible characters or clear action

A single underwater frame shows indistinct shapes in blue water. The transcript contains three instances of the word 'Amen' and one 'Hmm.'

“- Hmm.” 30:49 · “Amen.” 30:50 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 31:09 (passage 29:57–32:21); US record: Copyright term expired

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