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The General · Beat 200 · permalink

Forest

57:11–57:23 Released 1927; registered 1926

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 3 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 57:1357:13Frame at 57:1557:15Frame at 57:2057:20

Play from 57:11 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 77 · shots 448–450. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
forest (forest, exterior) evidence: frame:3
People
  • man in military uniform with hat, seated, visible in frame 1 visible
  • man in military uniform with hat, standing, visible in frame 2 visible
  • group of men in military uniforms, some holding rifles, visible in frame 2 visible
Seen
military uniforms [frame:1, frame:2], hats [frame:1, frame:2], rifles [frame:2], wooden bridge [frame:3]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: military, war, landscape; style notes: static shots, sepia tone, medium close-ups transitioning to wide landscape

A group of soldiers in period uniforms is shown in close-up and medium shots, followed by a wide shot of a wooden bridge in a wooded area. 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 57:13 (passage 57:11–57:23); US record: Copyright term expired

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