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The General · Beat 121 · permalink

Train

36:06–36:25 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 quote checked against the transcript; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 36:0836:08Frame at 36:1136:11Frame at 36:1736:17Frame at 36:2136:21

Play from 36:06 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 44 · shots 283–287. 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 coat and hat, standing alone near train visible
  • group of men in work clothes, carrying boxes and crates visible
Seen happening
  • A man stands with arms crossed near a train. [frame:1]
  • Men load cargo onto a train car. [frame:2]
  • Men carry boxes across a dusty yard with train cars in background. [frame:3]
  • Men continue moving cargo in a busy train yard. [frame:4]
Seen
train car [frame:1], wooden crates and boxes [frame:2], dusty ground [frame:3], men in work clothes [frame:4]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: solemn and busy; themes: labor, transportation, solitude amid activity; style notes: static wide shots, high contrast lighting, sepia tone, period costume

A man stands alone near a train in a dusty yard while others load cargo; the scene is outdoors and active. No names are spoken, and the time of day is not established.

“Amen.” 36:21 automatic transcript, may be wrong

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 36:08 (passage 36:06–36:25); US record: Copyright term expired

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