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The General · Beat 166 · permalink

Railroad

47:26–47:46 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 47:3047:30Frame at 47:3847:38Frame at 47:4447:44

Play from 47:26 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 64 · shots 367–369. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
railroad (other, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in dark clothing, visible from behind, near train visible
  • woman in light-colored dress, standing indoors visible
Seen happening
  • A man walks near a train on tracks. [frame:1]
  • The front of a train is seen on tracks with broken rails. [frame:2]
  • A woman stands inside a dimly lit room. [frame:3]
Seen
train [frame:1], railroad tracks [frame:1], broken rails [frame:2], woman's dress [frame:3]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and urgent; themes: transportation, disruption, isolation; style notes: static shots, sepia tone, medium and close framing, low-key lighting in interior

A train is shown on tracks with people around it, followed by a view of the tracks and then a woman inside a dimly lit interior. No dialogue or on-screen text is present in these frames.

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 47:30 (passage 47:26–47:46); US record: Copyright term expired

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