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The General · Beat 125 · permalink

Battlefield

37:06–37:26 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). 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 37:0737:07Frame at 37:1037:10Frame at 37:2037:20Frame at 37:2537:25

Play from 37:06 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 46 · shots 294–298. 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 clothing, visible from chest up, holding a pistol visible
  • silhouetted man running along train car, wearing dark clothing visible
Seen happening
  • A man holds a pistol inside a train cab. [frame:1]
  • A wide view of a battlefield with soldiers and structures. [frame:2]
  • An explosion occurs on the battlefield. [frame:3]
  • A man runs along the top of a moving train car. [frame:4]
Seen
pistol [frame:1], train cab interior [frame:1], battlefield with soldiers and cannons [frame:2], explosion smoke [frame:3], train car [frame:4]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and action-oriented; themes: war, chase, danger; style notes: static wide shots, sepia tone, silhouetted figures, dramatic framing of action

A man is seen inside a train cab, then a wide shot shows a battlefield with soldiers and explosions, followed by a man running along a train car. No dialogue or on-screen text is present.

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 37:07 (passage 37:06–37:26); US record: Copyright term expired

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