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The General · Beat 142 · permalink

Field

41:33–41:57 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; 1 name 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 41:3641:36Frame at 41:4441:44Frame at 41:5341:53

Play from 41:33 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 56 · shots 322–324. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
field (field, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • multiple figures on and around a steam locomotive, wearing dark period clothing visible
Seen happening
  • A steam locomotive is moving forward on tracks through a field. [frame:1]
  • The front of the locomotive is shown head-on, moving along the tracks. [frame:2]
  • The locomotive continues moving, with people visible on its sides and rear. [frame:3]
Seen
steam locomotive [frame:1], railroad tracks [frame:1], dust cloud [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: action-oriented; themes: transportation, pursuit, rural setting; style notes: wide shots, sepia tone, dynamic movement of locomotive, outdoor natural lighting

A steam locomotive moves along tracks through a rural landscape with several people visible on and around the engine. No names are spoken, and no interior or time-of-day indicators are present.

“Amen.” 41:48 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 41:36 (passage 41:33–41:57); US record: Copyright term expired

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