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The General · Beat 139 · permalink

Forest

41:09–41:19 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; 0 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 41:1441:14

Play from 41:09 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 55 · shots 319–319. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
forest (forest, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • woman in long dress, standing visible
  • man in dark coat, standing visible
Seen happening
  • A man and a woman stand near railway tracks in a wooded area. [frame:1]
Seen
railway tracks [frame:1], trees [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: quiet, contemplative; themes: outdoor setting, silent interaction; style notes: static medium shot, natural lighting, sepia tone

A man and a woman stand near railway tracks in a wooded area. The scene is silent except for a brief utterance captured in the transcript.

“Hmm.” 41:10 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 41:14 (passage 41:09–41:19); US record: Copyright term expired

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