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The General · Beat 162 · permalink

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46:12–46:35 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 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 46:2446:24

Play from 46:12 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 64 · shots 356–356. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
(field, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • figure near train wheels, possibly crouching or kneeling, wearing dark clothing visible
  • figure standing on top of locomotive, silhouetted against sky visible
Seen happening
  • A figure is near the wheels of a moving or stopped train, another stands atop the locomotive. [frame:1]
Seen
steam locomotive [frame:1], railroad car with 'U.S.' lettering [frame:1], trees and hills in background [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense or industrious; themes: transportation, manual labor, rural setting; style notes: wide shot, sepia tone, static camera, natural lighting

A train is shown outdoors with figures near its wheels; one figure appears to be working on or near the locomotive. The setting is rural with trees and hills in the background.

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 46:24 (passage 46:12–46:35); US record: Copyright term expired

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