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The General · Beat 112 · permalink

Forest

33:09–33:27 Released 1927; registered 1926

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 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 33:1133:11Frame at 33:1633:16Frame at 33:2233:22

Play from 33:09 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 40 · shots 267–269. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
forest (forest, exterior) evidence: frame:1, frame:3
People
  • man in dark clothing, visible in frame 3 visible
  • woman in light-colored dress, visible in frame 3 visible
Seen
steam locomotive [frame:2], foliage [frame:1, frame:3]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: quiet; themes: nature, transportation, intimacy; style notes: sepia-toned, static shots, medium close-up on figures, wide shot of train

A train is shown on tracks with trees in the background, followed by two people sitting among foliage. No dialogue or on-screen text is present in the frames.

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 33:11 (passage 33:09–33:27); US record: Copyright term expired

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