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The General · Beat 208 · permalink

Forest

59:52–1:00:14 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 59:5359:53Frame at 59:5859:58Frame at 1:00:021:00:02Frame at 1:00:091:00:09

Play from 59:52 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 79 · shots 470–473. 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 in dark uniform, prone, holding rifle visible
  • man in light uniform, seated on cannon carriage visible
  • man in light uniform, seated on cannon carriage visible
  • man in light uniform, standing, holding object visible
  • man in light uniform, standing, beside p4 visible
Seen
rifle [frame:1], cannon carriage [frame:2], military uniforms [frame:4]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: military, war, camouflage; style notes: static shots, sepia tone, medium and close framing

A man in period military attire is seen aiming a rifle from a prone position in a wooded area. Other soldiers are visible on a cannon carriage, and two men in uniform stand together near the cannon.

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 59:53 (passage 59:52–1:00:14); US record: Copyright term expired

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