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The General · Beat 179 · permalink

Train

51:09–51:35 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 quote checked against the transcript; 1 name checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 51:2251:22

Play from 51:09 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 70 · shots 400–400. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
train (train, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • figure standing on top of train car, silhouetted, no discernible clothing or features visible
Seen happening
  • A figure stands atop a train car marked 'W.B.' [frame:1]
Seen
train car with 'W.B.' lettering [frame:1], figure standing on train [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: solemn or conclusive; themes: transportation, finality; style notes: silhouetted figure against warm-toned sky; static wide shot; minimal detail

A train is shown with a figure standing on top of a car marked 'W.B.'; a voice says 'Amen.' at 51:20. No other people, objects, or events are visible or mentioned in this beat.

“Amen.” 51:20 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 51:22 (passage 51:09–51:35); US record: Copyright term expired

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