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The General · Beat 182 · permalink

Railroad yard

52:12–52:32 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). 0 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 52:1352:13Frame at 52:1852:18Frame at 52:2752:27

Play from 52:12 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 71 · shots 408–410. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
railroad yard (other, exterior) evidence: frame:1, frame:3
Seen happening
  • A train is visible on railroad tracks. [frame:1]
  • A sign with the letters 'W.B.A.R.R.' is shown on a train car. [frame:2]
  • A group of men are standing near railroad tracks. [frame:3]
Seen
train [frame:1], sign with 'W.B.A.R.R.' [frame:2], railroad tracks [frame:3], group of men [frame:3]
On screen
W.B.A.R.R.
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: neutral; themes: railroad, group gathering; style notes: static shots, sepia tone, medium to long shots, natural daylight

A train is shown on tracks with a sign reading 'W.B.A.R.R.' and a group of men gathered nearby. The scene is set outdoors during daylight with no dialogue provided.

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 52:13 (passage 52:12–52:32); US record: Copyright term expired

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