Forest

59:20–59:32 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 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

59:20

59:23

59:27

59:30

Play from 59:20 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 79 · shots 463–466. 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, frame:4

People

soldier in uniform and hat, mounted on horseback visible
group of soldiers in uniform, standing in line visible

Seen happening

cannon fires, producing smoke [frame:1]
soldier on horseback is visible in wooded area [frame:2]
explosion occurs near line of soldiers [frame:3]
smoke rises near wooden structure in forest [frame:4]

Seen

cannon, horse, wooden structure

Interpretation

Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and action-oriented; themes: warfare, military action, outdoor combat; style notes: static medium shots, sepia-toned, high-contrast lighting emphasizing smoke and explosions

A cannon fires in a wooded area, followed by a soldier on horseback observing the scene. An explosion occurs near a line of soldiers, and smoke rises near a wooden structure in a forested landscape. No dialogue or named characters are present in this sequence.

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 59:20 (passage 59:20–59:32); US record: Copyright term expired

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Cite: Public Reel, "The General (1927), 59:20–59:32", https://publicreel.org/moment/TheGeneral/b206, from Internet Archive item TheGeneral, retrieved 6 September 2026.

Forest

Evidence and details

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