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The General · Beat 120 · permalink

Train

35:51–36:06 Released 1927; registered 1926

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 5 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 35:5335:53Frame at 36:0036:00

Play from 35:51 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 44 · shots 281–282. 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, visible from side, mid-frame visible
  • man in light shirt and dark pants, standing near train door visible
  • man in dark clothing, reaching toward train door visible
  • man in dark clothing, standing near train steps visible
  • man in light shirt, standing near train, holding object visible
Seen
train [frame:1], dirt track [frame:1], train steps [frame:1], train door [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: transportation, group activity, outdoor setting; style notes: static medium shots, sepia tone, natural daylight, wide framing showing multiple figures and train

Two frames show men near a train on a dirt track during daylight. No dialogue or names are provided in the transcript for this segment.

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 35:53 (passage 35:51–36:06); US record: Copyright term expired

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