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The General · Beat 168 · permalink

Canyon

48:06–48:26 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). 1 quote checked against the transcript; 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 48:1048:10Frame at 48:1748:17Frame at 48:2348:23

Play from 48:06 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 64 · shots 373–375. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
canyon (other, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man standing on train tracks, seen from behind, wearing dark clothing visible
  • person visible inside train cab, partially obscured visible
Seen happening
  • Train moves through a canyon [frame:1]
  • Person visible inside train cab [frame:2]
  • Man stands on train tracks ahead of approaching train [frame:3]
Seen
train [frame:1], railroad tracks [frame:1], canyon walls [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: danger, isolation, man versus machine; style notes: wide shots emphasize scale of canyon and isolation of figure; sepia tone suggests age and drama

A train moves through a canyon as a man stands on the tracks ahead. The word 'Amen' is spoken during the sequence.

“Amen.” 48:23 automatic transcript, may be wrong

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 48:10 (passage 48:06–48:26); US record: Copyright term expired

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