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The General · Beat 205 · permalink

Forest

58:49–59:20 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 59:0459:04

Play from 58:49 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 79 · shots 462–462. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
forest (forest, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man on horseback, wearing hat and uniform visible
  • man on foot, wearing uniform and holding rifle visible
  • man on foot, wearing uniform and hat, back to camera visible
Seen
horse [frame:1], rifle [frame:1], uniforms [frame:1], hats [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: military, encounter, outdoor; style notes: medium shot, sepia tone, static framing, natural lighting

A man on horseback speaks to two men on foot in a wooded area. The scene is shot in sepia tone with no visible dialogue or on-screen text.

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 59:04 (passage 58:49–59:20); US record: Copyright term expired

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