Field

56:51–57:07 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). 4 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

56:58

57:05

Play from 56:51 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 75 · shots 445–446. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place

field (field, exterior) evidence: frame:1

People

man in military uniform with buttons and hat, seated visible
man in military uniform with hat, seated to left of p1 visible
man in military uniform with hat, seated to right of p1 visible
soldiers in uniform near train, some running visible

Seen happening

Soldiers are seen near a train in an outdoor setting. [frame:1]
Three men in military uniforms are seated together. [frame:2]

Seen

train [frame:1], military uniforms [frame:1, frame:2], hats [frame:2]

Interpretation

Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense or formal; themes: military, transportation, group dynamics; style notes: static medium and close-up shots, sepia-toned, natural outdoor lighting

A train is shown outdoors with soldiers near it; a close-up follows of three men in military uniforms seated together. No dialogue or on-screen text is present in the frames.

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 56:58 (passage 56:51–57:07); US record: Copyright term expired

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Cite: Public Reel, "The General (1927), 56:51–57:07", https://publicreel.org/moment/TheGeneral/b198, from Internet Archive item TheGeneral, retrieved 6 September 2026.

Field

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