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The General · Beat 207 · permalink

Forest

59:32–59:52 Released 1927; registered 1926

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 5 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 59:3759:37Frame at 59:4359:43Frame at 59:4859:48

Play from 59:32 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 79 · shots 467–469. 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 a hat and light-colored shirt visible
  • soldier in helmet, standing beside cannon visible
  • soldier in dark uniform, standing near cannon visible
  • man in light shirt and pants, adjusting cannon barrel visible
  • man in hat and coat, standing near cannon visible
Seen
horse [frame:1], cannon [frame:2], wooden wagon wheels [frame:2], helmet [frame:2], sword [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: military preparation, outdoor conflict; style notes: static medium shots, high contrast lighting, sepia tone

A man on horseback gestures toward soldiers near a cannon in a wooded area. Other soldiers stand by the cannon, one adjusting its barrel, under dim, yellowish lighting.

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 59:37 (passage 59:32–59:52); US record: Copyright term expired

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