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The General · Beat 160 · permalink

Interior

45:46–46:04 Released 1927; registered 1926

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 45:5145:51Frame at 46:0046:00

Play from 45:46 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 64 · shots 352–353. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
interior (other, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in period military uniform, holding a rifle, seen from side visible
  • figure in dark clothing, partially obscured, near doorway visible
Seen
{'item': 'rifle', 'evidence': 'frame:1'} [frame:1], {'item': 'damaged interior wall', 'evidence': 'frame:1'} [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: military, conflict, landscape; style notes: static medium shot, high contrast lighting, sepia tone, wide landscape shot

A man in period military attire holds a rifle inside a dim, damaged interior while another figure is visible nearby; a separate shot shows a wide, flat landscape under a yellow sky. No names, times of day, or specific events are established by the frames or transcript.

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 45:51 (passage 45:46–46:04); US record: Copyright term expired

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