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The General · Beat 155 · permalink

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44:22–44:30 Released 1927; registered 1926

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 44:2244:22Frame at 44:2644:26

Play from 44:22 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 62 · shots 341–342. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
train (train, exterior) evidence: frame:2
Seen
steam locomotive [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: obscure, mechanical; themes: technology, transportation; style notes: extreme close-up on machinery, low-contrast lighting, grainy film stock

Two frames show a dark, indistinct scene followed by a close-up of a steam locomotive's boiler and bell. No people, dialogue, or on-screen text are visible.

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 44:22 (passage 44:22–44:30); US record: Copyright term expired

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