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The General · Beat 117 · permalink

Forest

34:58–35:17 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 name checked for a spoken or on-screen source; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 35:0135:01Frame at 35:1035:10

Play from 34:58 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 42 · shots 275–276. 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
People
  • wearing a light-colored, possibly white, garment; partially obscured by foliage visible
Seen
foliage [frame:1], light-colored garment [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense or secretive; themes: concealment, movement through nature; style notes: close framing, natural lighting, high contrast between garment and dark foliage

Two frames show a person in a light-colored garment moving through dense foliage. No dialogue or on-screen text is present.

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 35:01 (passage 34:58–35:17); US record: Copyright term expired

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