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Beat 12

3:23–3:39 Released 1927; registered 1926

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Frame at 3:313:31

Play from 3:23 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 7 · shots 30–30. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

On screen
I know every foot of this railroad from Marietta to Chattanooga —and with ten picked men I cannot fail.
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: confident; themes: determination, railroad, individual capability; style notes: static title card with centered serif text, typical of silent film intertitles

A title card displays a character's confident declaration about knowing the railroad route and succeeding with ten men. No people, actions, or settings are visible in the frame.

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 3:31 (passage 3:23–3:39); US record: Copyright term expired

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