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The General · Beat 172 · permalink

Field

49:17–49:34 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). 3 quotes checked against the transcript; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 49:2149:21Frame at 49:2949:29

Play from 49:17 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 64 · shots 387–388. 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
  • man in dark uniform, carrying a bag, walking on wooden planks near tracks visible
  • man in dark uniform, standing near tracks with a tool or weapon visible
Seen happening
  • steam rises from a train in a wooded field [frame:1]
  • a man walks on wooden planks near railway tracks [frame:2]
Also said
“Amen.” 49:24
Seen
train [frame:1], steam [frame:1], railway tracks [frame:2], wooden planks [frame:2], bag [frame:2], tool or weapon [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: neutral, observational; themes: railway, outdoor labor, solitude; style notes: wide shot of landscape, medium shot of figures near tracks; sepia tone, static camera

A train emits steam in a wooded area, then a man walks near railway tracks and equipment. No names or dialogue are established beyond the word 'Amen.'

“Hmm.” 49:18 · “and” 49:22 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 49:21 (passage 49:17–49:34); US record: Copyright term expired

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