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The General · Beat 17 · permalink

Private office

4:28–4:42 Released 1927; registered 1926

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 4:354:35

Play from 4:28 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 11 · shots 35–35. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
private_office (private office, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in dark suit, standing, facing right visible
  • man in dark suit, standing, holding a long object visible
  • man seated, wearing cap, holding long object visible
Seen
table [frame:1], small object on table [frame:1], long object held by p2 [frame:1], long object held by p3 [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: confrontation, military, strategy; style notes: static medium shot, low-key lighting, silhouetted figures

Two men stand near a table with a small object on it; a third man sits in the background holding a long object. The scene is dimly lit and appears to be indoors.

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 4:35 (passage 4:28–4:42); US record: Copyright term expired

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