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The General · Beat 202 · permalink

Battlefield

57:37–58:08 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). 1 quote checked against the transcript; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 57:4357:43Frame at 57:5857:58

Play from 57:37 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 78 · shots 452–453. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
battlefield (battlefield, exterior) evidence: frame:1, frame:2
People
  • man in dark military uniform with cap, sitting on horse visible
  • soldiers in uniform, some on horseback, others on foot visible
Seen happening
  • A man in uniform sits on horseback among soldiers. [frame:1]
  • A wide view of a battlefield with scattered troops and debris. [frame:2]
Seen
military uniform [frame:1], horse [frame:1], battlefield debris [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: solemn; themes: war, military; style notes: wide shot, sepia tone, static framing

A man in a dark military uniform sits on horseback among other soldiers and horses; a wide shot shows a battlefield with scattered troops and debris. No names are spoken, and no time of day or period is established.

“Amen.” 57:47 automatic transcript, may be wrong

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 57:43 (passage 57:37–58:08); US record: Copyright term expired

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