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The General · Beat 148 · permalink

Field

42:41–43:02 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). 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 42:4642:46Frame at 42:5742:57

Play from 42:41 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 58 · shots 332–333. 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
  • man in dark clothing and hat, running alongside train visible
  • man in dark clothing and hat, inside freight car, reaching for crates visible
Seen happening
  • A steam locomotive travels along railroad tracks through a field. [frame:1]
  • A man runs alongside the moving train. [frame:1]
  • A man inside a freight car reaches toward crates. [frame:2]
Seen
steam locomotive [frame:1], railroad tracks [frame:1], freight car [frame:2], crates [frame:2], telephone pole [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: urgent; themes: chase, railroad, physical action; style notes: wide outdoor shot with natural lighting, medium close-up inside car, sepia tone

A steam locomotive moves along tracks through a field as a man runs alongside it; another man is seen inside a freight car. No dialogue or on-screen text is present in these frames.

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 42:46 (passage 42:41–43:02); US record: Copyright term expired

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