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43:26–43:36 Released 1927; registered 1926

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 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 43:3143:31

Play from 43:26 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 60 · shots 336–336. 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
  • woman wearing a long light-colored dress, seen from behind visible
Seen
large dark object resembling machinery or a train engine, wooden walls or panels
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: static, mysterious; themes: mechanization, isolation; style notes: low-key lighting, medium shot, silhouetted figures against a dim background

A woman in a long dress stands near a large dark object in a dimly lit interior. The scene is static and shows no movement or dialogue.

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 43:31 (passage 43:26–43:36); US record: Copyright term expired

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