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The General · Beat 183 · permalink

Railway track

52:32–52:48 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). 3 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 52:3352:33Frame at 52:3552:35Frame at 52:4152:41Frame at 52:4652:46

Play from 52:32 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 71 · shots 411–415. 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:2
People
  • man in military-style uniform and cap, holding a rifle visible
  • man in dark clothing and cap, seated inside train cab visible
  • man in light-colored uniform, standing on train platform visible
Seen happening
  • A man stands on the platform of a moving train while another man sits in the cab. [frame:1]
  • A man in uniform stands alone in a wooded area holding a rifle. [frame:2]
  • The same man in uniform holds a rifle while standing in the woods. [frame:3]
  • A man stands on the train platform as it moves past, with another man visible in the cab. [frame:4]
Seen
train [frame:1], rifle [frame:2], military uniform [frame:2], train cab [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: military duty, isolation, movement vs. stillness; style notes: static medium shots, sepia-toned, high contrast lighting emphasizing silhouettes

A man in uniform stands outside a moving train holding a rifle, while another man is visible inside the train's cab. The setting appears to be a wooded area beside a railway track.

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 52:33 (passage 52:32–52:48); US record: Copyright term expired

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