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The General · Beat 133 · permalink

Railway

39:28–39:47 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). 1 quote checked against the transcript; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 39:3139:31Frame at 39:3639:36Frame at 39:4239:42

Play from 39:28 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 50 · shots 310–312. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
railway (other, exterior) evidence: frame:2
People
  • man wearing a hat and dark coat visible
  • person in light-colored clothing inside train cab visible
Seen happening
  • man stands near tent [frame:1]
  • man bends over near railway tracks [frame:2]
  • man and another person are inside train cab [frame:3]
Seen
tent, railway tracks, train cab interior
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: solemn or ritualistic due to the word 'Amen' and the man's posture; themes: railway travel, ritual or prayer, solitude; style notes: static shots, sepia tone, medium to close framing, no visible camera movement

A man in a hat stands near a tent and railway tracks, then appears inside a train cab with another person. The transcript includes the word 'Amen' at 39:29.

“Amen.” 39:29 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 39:31 (passage 39:28–39:47); US record: Copyright term expired

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