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The General · Beat 122 · permalink

Battlefield

36:25–36:38 Released 1927; registered 1926

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 2 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 36:3036:30Frame at 36:3636:36

Play from 36:25 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 44 · shots 288–289. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
battlefield (battlefield, exterior) evidence: frame:2
People
  • man in dark uniform, holding rifle, visible from side visible
  • soldiers in distance, indistinct figures visible
Seen
rifle [frame:1], train car interior [frame:1], smoke plume [frame:2], wagons or carts [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: war, military action; style notes: static medium shot inside train car, wide shot of battlefield with smoke; sepia tone, high contrast

A man in uniform stands inside a train car holding a rifle, while outside, a battlefield scene shows smoke rising near soldiers and wagons. No dialogue or named characters are 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 36:30 (passage 36:25–36:38); US record: Copyright term expired

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