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Beat 199

57:07–57:11 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 57:0957:09

Play from 57:07 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 76 · shots 447–447. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

On screen
That bridge is not burned enough to stop you, and my men will ford the river.
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: neutral; themes: war, strategy, obstacle; style notes: static title card with centered serif text on a solid background, typical of silent film intertitles

A title card states that a bridge is not sufficiently burned to stop an advance and that men will ford a river. No people, actions, or locations are visible in the frame.

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 57:09 (passage 57:07–57:11); US record: Copyright term expired

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