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The General · Beat 131 · permalink

Railroad track

39:01–39:14 Released 1927; registered 1926

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 39:0839:08

Play from 39:01 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 48 · shots 308–308. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
railroad track (other, exterior) evidence: frame:1
Seen
train car [frame:1], utility pole [frame:1], trees [frame:1]
On screen
U.S.M.R.R.
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: static; style notes: medium shot, sepia tone, static framing, no visible movement

A train car marked 'U.S.M.R.R.' is visible outdoors beside trees and a utility pole. No people or actions are shown in this single frame.

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 39:08 (passage 39:01–39:14); US record: Copyright term expired

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