Vehicle interior

45:11–45:25 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). 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

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Play from 45:11 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 64 · shots 345–347. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place

vehicle_interior (vehicle interior, interior) evidence: frame:1

People

person seated inside vehicle, dark clothing, profile visible visible
man standing, wearing light-colored shirt, dark pants, medium build visible

Seen happening

Person sits inside vehicle cabin with water visible outside. [frame:1]
Large steam-powered machine is shown with pipes and wheels. [frame:2]
Man stands in smoky interior, looking toward left. [frame:3]

Seen

vehicle cabin, steam-powered machine, smoke

Interpretation

Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: machinery, transportation, industrial labor; style notes: static shots, high contrast lighting, sepia tone, industrial setting

A person is visible inside a vehicle cabin near water, followed by a shot of a large steam-powered machine, then a man standing in a smoky interior. No dialogue or named characters are 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 45:13 (passage 45:11–45:25); US record: Copyright term expired

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Cite: Public Reel, "The General (1927), 45:11–45:25", https://publicreel.org/moment/TheGeneral/b158, from Internet Archive item TheGeneral, retrieved 6 September 2026.

Vehicle interior

Evidence and details

The record

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