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The General · Beat 123 · permalink

Field

36:38–36:56 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). 4 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 36:4336:43Frame at 36:5136:51Frame at 36:5536:55

Play from 36:38 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 44 · shots 290–292. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
field (field, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • soldier in dark uniform, helmet, standing or walking visible
  • soldier in dark uniform, lying on ground near tracks visible
  • soldier in dark uniform, viewed from back, walking away visible
  • group of soldiers and civilians in background, indistinct visible
Seen happening
  • A soldier lies on the ground near railroad tracks while others move around him. [frame:1]
  • A soldier in uniform walks away from the camera along the tracks, with others nearby. [frame:2]
  • Four soldiers walk away from the camera along the tracks, with a crowd in the background. [frame:3]
Seen
railroad tracks [frame:1], wooden crate or box [frame:1], soldier uniforms and helmets [frame:2], dusty ground [frame:3]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: military, railroad, battlefield; style notes: wide shots, sepia tone, static camera, outdoor natural lighting

Soldiers in dark uniforms move along and around railroad tracks in an open, dusty field. One soldier is on the ground near the tracks while others stand or walk nearby, with a crowd visible in the background.

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 36:43 (passage 36:38–36:56); US record: Copyright term expired

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