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The General · Beat 169 · permalink

Field

48:26–48:42 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 name 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 48:2748:27Frame at 48:3348:33Frame at 48:3948:39

Play from 48:26 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 64 · shots 376–378. 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
  • person standing on the exterior of a moving train, wearing dark clothing visible
Seen happening
  • A train moves along a track through a field with trees in the background. [frame:1]
  • The side of the locomotive is shown with the letters 'W.B.&R.R.' visible. [frame:2]
  • A person is visible standing on the exterior of the moving train. [frame:3]
Seen
train [frame:1], W.B.&R.R. lettering [frame:2], person on train [frame:3]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: transportation, movement, rural setting; style notes: static shots, sepia tone, medium to long shots showing motion and scale

A train moves through a rural landscape with a person visible on its exterior. The side of the locomotive shows the letters 'W.B.&R.R.'.

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 48:27 (passage 48:26–48:42); US record: Copyright term expired

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