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The General · Beat 181 · permalink

Forest

51:52–52:12 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 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 51:5451:54Frame at 52:0052:00Frame at 52:0652:06Frame at 52:1052:10

Play from 51:52 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 71 · shots 404–407. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
forest (forest, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • visible inside train cab, silhouette visible
  • standing near wooden structure, wearing dark clothing visible
Seen happening
  • train moves through wooded area [frame:1]
  • dark object floats in water near riverbank [frame:2]
  • person visible inside train cab [frame:3]
  • person stands near wooden structure beside tracks [frame:4]
Seen
train, train car with 'W.' marking, body of water, dark floating object, wooden structure
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and action-oriented; themes: transportation, pursuit, nature vs. machine; style notes: static wide shots, sepia-toned, high contrast lighting, period costume and props

A train moves through a wooded area near water, with a person visible inside the cab and another standing near a wooden structure beside the tracks. The scene includes a body of water with a dark object floating in it and a train car marked with 'W.' visible.

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 51:54 (passage 51:52–52:12); US record: Copyright term expired

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