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The General · Beat 119 · permalink

Train

35:32–35:51 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). 3 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 35:3835:38Frame at 35:4835:48

Play from 35:32 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 44 · shots 279–280. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
train (train, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in dark clothing, running visible
  • man in light shirt, running visible
  • man inside train doorway, holding large object visible
Seen happening
  • men are running around a train car [frame:1]
  • a man is visible inside the train doorway holding a large object [frame:2]
Seen
train car, large object held by man
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: urgent; themes: chaos, movement, train; style notes: static wide shot, sepia tone, high contrast

A group of men are seen running and moving around a train car in an outdoor setting. One man is visible inside the doorway of the train car, holding onto a large object.

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 35:38 (passage 35:32–35:51); US record: Copyright term expired

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