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The General · Beat 141 · permalink

Railroad

41:23–41:33 Released 1927; registered 1926

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 1 name checked for a spoken or on-screen source; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 41:2841:28

Play from 41:23 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 56 · shots 321–321. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
railroad (other, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • wearing a light-colored shirt and dark pants, standing beside a train visible
Seen
steam locomotive [frame:1], train wheels [frame:1], train undercarriage [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: neutral; themes: transportation, railroad; style notes: static medium shot, sepia-toned, early cinema framing

A person in a light shirt and dark pants stands beside a steam locomotive, near its wheels and undercarriage. The scene is set outdoors during daylight, with no visible dialogue or on-screen text.

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 41:28 (passage 41:23–41:33); US record: Copyright term expired

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