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The General · Beat 184 · permalink

Vehicle interior

52:48–53:08 Released 1927; registered 1926

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 1 name checked for a spoken or on-screen source; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 52:5852:58

Play from 52:48 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 71 · shots 416–416. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
vehicle_interior (vehicle interior, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • wearing dark clothing, holding a light-colored object visible
Seen
light-colored object held by person [frame:1], vehicle interior structure [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: neutral; style notes: static shot, medium close-up, monochrome with high contrast lighting

A person is visible inside a vehicle interior, holding an object. No dialogue or on-screen text is present in this beat.

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 52:58 (passage 52:48–53:08); US record: Copyright term expired

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