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The General · Beat 170 · permalink

Forest

48:42–49:01 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; 0 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 48:4648:46Frame at 48:5348:53Frame at 48:5548:55Frame at 48:5948:59

Play from 48:42 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 64 · shots 379–382. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
forest (forest, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • figures on a train engine, wearing dark clothing, visible from a distance visible
Seen happening
  • A steam train is seen moving through a wooded area. [frame:1]
  • The train continues moving, partially obscured by trees and brush. [frame:2]
  • A close-up shows the front of the train engine with figures on top. [frame:3]
  • The train engine is shown from a side angle with figures visible on its roof. [frame:4]
Seen
steam train [frame:1], trees [frame:1], brush [frame:2], train engine [frame:3], figures on train [frame:4]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: neutral; themes: transportation, movement, outdoor setting; style notes: wide shots establishing location, followed by closer shots on the moving train; sepia-toned, consistent with 1920s silent film

A steam train moves through a wooded area, with a close-up showing figures on its engine. The setting is outdoors, with trees and open land visible.

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 48:46 (passage 48:42–49:01); US record: Copyright term expired

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