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The General · Beat 203 · permalink

Battlefield

58:08–58:28 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). 2 quotes checked against the transcript; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 58:0958:09Frame at 58:1258:12Frame at 58:1858:18Frame at 58:2458:24

Play from 58:08 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 78 · shots 454–458. 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:3, frame:4
People
  • man in military uniform and hat, on horseback, raising right hand visible
  • group of soldiers in uniform, standing or moving in formation visible
Seen happening
  • A military officer on horseback raises his right hand. [frame:2]
  • Cannon fire produces large plumes of white smoke on a battlefield. [frame:3]
  • Soldiers and cavalry are seen moving across a smoky battlefield with a wooden bridge in the background. [frame:4]
Seen
horse [frame:2], cannon [frame:3], wooden bridge [frame:4], military uniforms [frame:1, frame:2, frame:4], smoke from cannon [frame:3, frame:4]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and dramatic; themes: war, military command, battlefield chaos; style notes: wide shots, sepia-toned, static camera, high contrast lighting emphasizing smoke and movement

A military officer on horseback raises his hand as cannon fire erupts on a battlefield; soldiers are visible in the background. The transcript contains two instances of the word 'Amen' spoken during this sequence.

“Amen.” 58:08 · “Amen.” 58:10 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 58:09 (passage 58:08–58:28); US record: Copyright term expired

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