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The General · Beat 188 · permalink

Camp

53:54–54:15 Released 1927; registered 1926

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 4 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 2 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 54:0254:02Frame at 54:1354:13

Play from 53:54 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 73 · shots 423–424. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
camp (camp, exterior) evidence: frame:2
People
  • man wearing a wide-brimmed hat and dark coat, standing with others visible
  • person in light-colored dress, standing beside p1 visible
  • person in dark coat and hat, holding an object, standing to left of p1 visible
  • group of soldiers on horseback, some carrying rifles visible
Seen happening
  • Three people stand together near a building with windows. [frame:1]
  • Soldiers on horseback move past a row of tents. [frame:2]
Seen
wide-brimmed hat, tents, horses, rifles
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: neutral; themes: military movement, group interaction; style notes: static medium shots, sepia-toned, wide framing in second shot to show scale of troop movement

Two frames show a man in a hat standing with two others near a building, followed by a scene of soldiers on horseback moving past tents. 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 54:02 (passage 53:54–54:15); US record: Copyright term expired

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