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The General · Beat 176 · permalink

Field

50:20–50:41 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 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 50:2350:23Frame at 50:2850:28Frame at 50:3350:33Frame at 50:3850:38

Play from 50:20 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 67 · shots 393–396. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
field (field, exterior) evidence: frame:2
Seen happening
  • Soldiers are seen marching in formation along a dirt road. [frame:2]
  • A column of soldiers continues marching along the road. [frame:3]
  • A horse-drawn artillery piece moves along a path through trees. [frame:4]
Seen
soldiers [frame:2], artillery piece [frame:4], horses [frame:4], dirt road [frame:2], trees [frame:4]
On screen
The Northern division nearing the bridge to meet the supply trains.
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: march; themes: military movement, civil war; style notes: static wide shots, sepia tone, silent film intertitle

A title card announces the Northern division nearing a bridge to meet supply trains. Subsequent frames show soldiers marching in formation along a dirt road and a horse-drawn artillery piece moving through a wooded area.

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 50:23 (passage 50:20–50:41); US record: Copyright term expired

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