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The General · Beat 110 · permalink

Field

32:29–32:51 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). 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 32:3532:35Frame at 32:4632:46

Play from 32:29 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 40 · shots 264–265. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
field (field, exterior) evidence: frame:2
People
  • man in dark coat, visible in foliage visible
  • woman in light ruffled dress, visible in foliage visible
Seen happening
  • A man and a woman are embracing in foliage. [frame:1]
  • A wide shot shows a field with hay bales and distant figures near buildings. [frame:2]
Also said
“Amen.” 32:42 · “Amen.” 32:42
Seen
foliage, ruffled dress, hay bales, distant buildings
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: solemn or ritualistic due to repeated 'Amen' and embrace; themes: ritual, intimacy, rural setting; style notes: static medium close-up followed by wide landscape shot; sepia-toned, low-contrast film stock

A man and a woman embrace in foliage; a wide shot shows a rural landscape with hay bales and distant figures. The transcript contains repeated utterances of 'Amen' and 'Oh' during this interval.

“Amen.” 32:38 · “Oh” 32:40 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 32:35 (passage 32:29–32:51); US record: Copyright term expired

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