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The General · Beat 171 · permalink

Field

49:01–49:17 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 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 49:0249:02Frame at 49:0649:06Frame at 49:1249:12Frame at 49:1649:16

Play from 49:01 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

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Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 64 · shots 383–386. 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
Seen happening
  • A steam locomotive is moving across a field. [frame:1]
  • The front of the locomotive is shown in close-up. [frame:2]
  • The train is seen moving away through trees. [frame:3]
  • Figures are visible lying on top of cargo cars on the moving train. [frame:4]
Seen
steam locomotive, cargo cars, trees, figures on train
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: action; themes: transportation, movement, outdoor setting; style notes: wide and medium shots, sepia tone, static camera, natural outdoor lighting

A steam locomotive moves through a wooded, open landscape. The train is seen from multiple angles, including a close-up of its engine and a view of its cargo cars carrying figures.

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 49:02 (passage 49:01–49:17); US record: Copyright term expired

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