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The General · Beat 180 · permalink

Railroad tracks

51:35–51:52 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). 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 51:3951:39Frame at 51:4651:46Frame at 51:5051:50

Play from 51:35 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 71 · shots 401–403. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
railroad tracks (other, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • person in dark clothing, standing on tracks, holding an object to the head visible
  • person in light-colored, ruffled dress, standing in or beside a vehicle visible
Seen happening
  • A person stands on railroad tracks. [frame:1]
  • A person in a ruffled dress stands beside a vehicle. [frame:2]
  • A person on the tracks raises an object to their head. [frame:3]
Seen
railroad tracks [frame:1], vehicle [frame:2], ruffled dress [frame:2], object held to head [frame:3]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: railroad, confrontation, period costume; style notes: static shots, low-angle view of tracks, sepia tone, medium close-up on characters

A person stands on railroad tracks while another person is visible in a vehicle nearby. The setting is outdoors along a railway line with no clear indication of time of day or period.

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 51:39 (passage 51:35–51:52); US record: Copyright term expired

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