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Bridge over water

57:23–57:37 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). 0 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 57:3057:30

Play from 57:23 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 77 · shots 451–451. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
bridge over water (other, exterior) evidence: frame:1
Seen happening
  • A train is crossing a trestle bridge. [frame:1]
Seen
train [frame:1], trestle bridge [frame:1], water [frame:1], smoke or haze [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense or dramatic; themes: transportation, industrial setting, natural landscape; style notes: static wide shot, sepia-toned, high contrast, atmospheric haze

A train crosses a trestle bridge over water under a smoky, hazy sky. The scene is shot in a single frame with no visible people or dialogue.

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 57:30 (passage 57:23–57:37); US record: Copyright term expired

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