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The General · Beat 149 · permalink

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43:02–43:20 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; 0 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 43:1143:11

Play from 43:02 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 58 · shots 334–334. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
other (other, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • wearing a heavy, textured coat, partially obscured by shadow visible
Seen happening
  • A person in a heavy coat is visible in a dim interior. [frame:1]
Seen
wooden structures [frame:1], heavy coat [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: neutral to somber; style notes: static shot, low-key lighting, high contrast, grainy film texture

A person in a heavy coat is visible in a dimly lit interior space with wooden structures. The transcript contains only the word 'Okay.' spoken at 43:17.

“Okay.” 43:17 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 43:11 (passage 43:02–43:20); US record: Copyright term expired

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