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The General · Beat 20 · permalink

Vehicle interior

4:52–5:04 Released 1927; registered 1926

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 4:584:58

Play from 4:52 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 14 · shots 38–38. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
vehicle_interior (vehicle interior, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in military-style uniform and cap, medium build, visible face visible
  • woman in hooded coat, light-colored hood, visible face visible
Seen
{'item': 'military-style uniform', 'frame': 1}, {'item': 'hooded coat', 'frame': 1}, {'item': 'wooden paneling (background)', 'frame': 1}
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense or intimate; themes: military, personal interaction, transportation; style notes: medium close-up, static framing, muted color palette, early silent film lighting

A man in a military-style uniform and a woman in a hooded coat stand close together outdoors. The setting appears to be beside a train or large vehicle, with wooden paneling visible in the background.

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 4:58 (passage 4:52–5:04); US record: Copyright term expired

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