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The General · Beat 159 · permalink

Vehicle interior

45:25–45:46 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; 1 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 45:2945:29Frame at 45:3545:35Frame at 45:3945:39Frame at 45:4345:43

Play from 45:25 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 64 · shots 348–351. 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:2
People
  • man wearing dark clothing and a cap, visible from chest up visible
  • woman wearing a long light-colored dress, visible from waist up visible
Seen happening
  • A man is visible inside the cab of a train. [frame:2]
  • A woman approaches the train cab and stands beside it. [frame:4]
  • A close-up of a wooden beam with a hole is shown. [frame:3]
Seen
train cab [frame:2], wooden beam with hole [frame:3], woman's long dress [frame:4]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense or anticipatory; themes: transportation, human interaction with machinery; style notes: static shots, sepia-toned, medium close-ups on characters and objects

A man is seen inside a train cab, and a woman approaches the cab from outside. A close-up shows a wooden beam with a hole. The setting appears to be outdoors near a train.

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 45:29 (passage 45:25–45:46); US record: Copyright term expired

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