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The General · Beat 173 · permalink

Private office

49:34–49:43 Released 1927; registered 1926

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 2 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 49:3849:38

Play from 49:34 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 65 · shots 389–389. 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
  • woman, wearing a long light-colored dress with ruffles, dark hair visible
  • man, wearing a dark coat, seen from behind or side visible
Seen
wall decorations [frame:1], furniture [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense or formal; themes: period drama, interpersonal tension; style notes: static medium shot, low-key lighting, sepia tone, period costume

A woman in a long dress stands near a man in a dark coat inside a dimly lit room with circular wall decorations. No dialogue or on-screen text is present in this beat.

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 49:38 (passage 49:34–49:43); US record: Copyright term expired

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