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Beat 124

36:56–37:06 Released 1927; registered 1926

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks flagged: quote not verbatim. 1 quote checked against the transcript; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 37:0137:01

Play from 36:56 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 45 · shots 293–293. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

On screen
I will get that spy before he reaches the Southern lines. You follow with the supply trains as planned.
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: determined; themes: military pursuit, strategic planning; style notes: static title card with centered yellow text on dark background

A title card displays dialogue about pursuing a spy and following supply trains. No characters or settings are visible in the frame.

“I will get that spy before he reaches the Southern lines. You follow with the supply trains as planned.” 2222 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 37:01 (passage 36:56–37:06); US record: Copyright term expired

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