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The General · Beat 129 · permalink

Train

38:11–38:41 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 38:2638:26

Play from 38:11 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 48 · shots 305–305. 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 suit, standing beside train visible
  • man leaning out of train window, wearing light-colored shirt visible
Seen
train car [frame:1], body of water [frame:1], hills [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: neutral; style notes: static medium shot, sepia tone, outdoor natural lighting

A man in a dark suit stands beside a train car while another man leans out of the window; a body of water and hills are visible in the background. No dialogue or on-screen text is 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 38:26 (passage 38:11–38:41); US record: Copyright term expired

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