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The General · Beat 165 · permalink

Field

47:05–47:26 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 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 47:0747:07Frame at 47:1347:13Frame at 47:2147:21Frame at 47:2447:24

Play from 47:05 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 64 · shots 362–366. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
field (field, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • several figures in dark clothing, visible on top of train cars visible
  • woman in light-colored long dress, standing near train interior visible
Seen happening
  • Train moves through a field with figures on its flatcars. [frame:1]
  • Figures are visible on a train car loaded with crates and sacks. [frame:2]
  • Three figures stand on a train car with crates; one holds a long object. [frame:3]
  • A woman in a light dress stands near the interior of a train car. [frame:4]
Seen
train [frame:1], crates and sacks [frame:2], long object (possibly a rifle or pole) [frame:3], woman's light-colored dress [frame:4]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and active; themes: transportation, movement, group action; style notes: wide shots of moving train, medium shots of figures on cars, dim sepia-toned lighting

A train is shown moving through a rural landscape with several people on its flatcars; one frame shows a woman standing near the train's interior. No dialogue or on-screen text is present.

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 47:07 (passage 47:05–47:26); US record: Copyright term expired

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