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The General · Beat 186 · permalink

Train

53:22–53:40 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 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 53:2353:23Frame at 53:2753:27Frame at 53:3453:34

Play from 53:22 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 72 · shots 418–420. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
train (train, exterior) evidence: frame:2
People
  • man in dark uniform, standing on platform visible
  • man in uniform, standing on moving train car visible
  • man in patterned coat, approaching platform visible
Seen happening
  • A man in uniform stands on a train platform. [frame:1]
  • A man in uniform stands on a moving train car marked 'W.&A.R.R.'. [frame:2]
  • A man in a patterned coat approaches the platform where another man stands. [frame:3]
Seen
train car with 'W.&A.R.R.' lettering, station building with windows, platform
On screen
W.&A.R.R.
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: neutral; themes: transportation, uniformed personnel, railroad; style notes: static medium shots, sepia tone, period costume, outdoor daylight lighting

A man in a uniform stands on a train platform near a station building while another man in a uniform is visible on a moving train car marked 'W.&A.R.R.'. A third man in a patterned coat approaches the platform.

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 53:23 (passage 53:22–53:40); US record: Copyright term expired

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