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Beat 19

4:45–4:52 Released 1927; registered 1926

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Frame at 4:484:48

Play from 4:45 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 13 · shots 37–37. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

On screen
As soon as I arrive I will let you know how seriously father is wounded.
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: neutral, informational; style notes: static title card with centered text, typical of silent film intertitles

No visible action or people are present in the single frame of this beat; only a title card with text is shown. The text is a message about informing someone of a father's serious wound.

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 4:48 (passage 4:45–4:52); US record: Copyright term expired

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