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The General · Beat 150 · permalink

Railroad tracks in countryside

43:20–43:26 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 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 43:2343:23

Play from 43:20 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 59 · shots 335–335. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
railroad tracks in countryside (field, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • figures near train and tracks, indistinct due to distance and film quality visible
Seen happening
  • A train is moving along railroad tracks through a rural landscape. [frame:1]
Seen
train [frame:1], railroad tracks [frame:1], trees and hills [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: neutral, observational; themes: transportation, rural landscape; style notes: wide shot, static framing, sepia-toned, silent film aesthetic

A train moves along tracks through a rural landscape with hills and trees; several people are visible near the tracks. No dialogue or on-screen text is present in this beat.

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 43:23 (passage 43:20–43:26); US record: Copyright term expired

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