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The General · Beat 197 · permalink

Forest

56:36–56:51 Released 1927; registered 1926

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 56:3956:39Frame at 56:4656:46

Play from 56:36 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 75 · shots 443–444. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
forest (forest, exterior) evidence: frame:1
Seen
wooden structure, trees
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: chaotic; themes: destruction, nature; style notes: wide shot, sepia tone, high contrast lighting

Two frames show a chaotic outdoor scene with figures moving through a wooded area and a damaged wooden structure. No people are named or audible, and no text or time indicators are visible.

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 56:39 (passage 56:36–56:51); US record: Copyright term expired

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