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0:36–0:42 Released 1927; registered 1926

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 1 name checked for a spoken or on-screen source; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 0:390:39

Play from 0:36 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 2 · shots 1–1. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
train (train, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man, dark clothing, medium build, seen from side visible
Seen
train car [frame:1], wooden platform [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: still, quiet; style notes: static medium shot, sepia tone, low contrast, no visible camera movement

A man in dark clothing stands on a wooden platform next to a train car. The scene is dimly lit with a sepia tone, showing no other people or movement.

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 0:39 (passage 0:36–0:42); US record: Copyright term expired

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