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The General · Beat 118 · permalink

Railway yard

35:17–35:32 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). 1 name 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 35:2135:21Frame at 35:2835:28

Play from 35:17 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 43 · shots 277–278. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
railway yard (other, exterior) evidence: frame:1, frame:2
People
  • men in dark uniforms or work clothes, adult, average build visible
Seen happening
  • Men are moving sandbags near a train car. [frame:1]
  • Men are working along railway tracks beside a locomotive. [frame:2]
Seen
sandbags [frame:1], train car [frame:1], locomotive [frame:2], railway tracks [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: active, industrious; themes: railroad labor, military logistics; style notes: wide shots, sepia tone, static camera, natural daylight

Two frames show men moving sandbags near a train and then a wider view of men working on railway tracks beside a locomotive. No dialogue or on-screen text is present in this beat.

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 35:21 (passage 35:17–35:32); US record: Copyright term expired

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