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River

58:28–58:49 Released 1927; registered 1926

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 58:3258:32Frame at 58:4058:40Frame at 58:4658:46

Play from 58:28 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 78 · shots 459–461. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
river (field, exterior) evidence: frame:1
Seen
smoke [frame:1], bridge [frame:3], boats [frame:3], trees [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: conflict, outdoor action; style notes: wide shots, golden backlighting, silhouetted figures, sepia tone

A wide shot shows a river with smoke rising and figures on a bridge and in boats. Silhouetted figures stand on a wooded hillside under golden light. The scene includes a wooden bridge, smoke, and people in small boats on the river.

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 58:32 (passage 58:28–58:49); US record: Copyright term expired

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