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The General · Beat 15 · permalink

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3:52–4:11 Released 1927; registered 1926

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 3 quotes checked against the transcript; 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 4:024:02

Play from 3:52 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 10 · shots 33–33. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
other (other) evidence: frame:1
People
  • unseen, voice only audible
Also said
“the the” 4:06
On screen
At Big Shanty we will steal the train while the passengers and crew are at dinner and proceeding North we will burn every bridge, cutting off the supplies of the army now facing you.
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: war strategy, sabotage; style notes: static text display with voiceover; no camera movement or lighting cues

A character speaks a plan to steal a train at Big Shanty during dinner and burn bridges to cut off army supplies. The plan is displayed as on-screen text and partially spoken in the transcript.

“I'm sorry.” 4:03 · “Amen.” 4:04 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 4:02 (passage 3:52–4:11); US record: Copyright term expired

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