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The General · Beat 192 · permalink

Porch

55:23–55:42 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). 1 quote checked against the transcript; 4 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 55:2555:25Frame at 55:2755:27Frame at 55:3355:33Frame at 55:3855:38

Play from 55:23 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 74 · shots 430–434. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
porch (other, exterior) evidence: frame:1
Time of day
night evidence: frame:1
People
  • man wearing a hat and light-colored shirt, medium build visible
  • woman in light dress, dark hair visible
  • man in hat, seated on porch railing visible
  • man in hat, standing behind p1 and p2 visible
Seen happening
  • man in hat embraces woman on porch [frame:2]
  • man and woman sit on porch steps, man holds woman's face [frame:3]
  • man walks away from porch [frame:4]
  • group of people gathered on porch, some standing, some seated [frame:1]
Seen
picket fence, wooden porch, wooden steps, porch railing
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: somber or solemn; themes: farewell, community gathering, emotional farewell; style notes: static medium shots, low-key lighting, sepia tone, staged composition

A man in a hat embraces a woman on a porch while others watch; he then walks away from the porch. The scene is set outdoors at night, with a picket fence and wooden building visible.

“Amen.” 55:36 automatic transcript, may be wrong

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 55:25 (passage 55:23–55:42); US record: Copyright term expired

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