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The General · Beat 177 · permalink

Railway track

50:41–50:49 Released 1927; registered 1926

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 1 name checked for a spoken or on-screen source; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 50:4550:45

Play from 50:41 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 68 · shots 397–397. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
railway track (other, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man, dark clothing, bent over visible
Seen
{'item': "train car with 'W.B.' lettering", 'evidence': 'frame:1'} [frame:1], {'item': 'railway track', 'evidence': 'frame:1'} [frame:1], {'item': 'pine tree', 'evidence': 'frame:1'} [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: neutral; themes: transportation, solitude; style notes: static wide shot, sepia tone, silent film aesthetic

A man is visible near a train car marked 'W.B.' on a railway track with trees in the background. 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 50:45 (passage 50:41–50:49); US record: Copyright term expired

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