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The General · Beat 209 · permalink

Field

1:00:14–1:00:34 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). 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:00:211:00:21Frame at 1:00:311:00:31

Play from 1:00:14 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 79 · shots 474–475. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
field (field, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in period uniform and cap, working with a cannon visible
  • man in period uniform and cap, standing near cannon wheel visible
  • man lying prone, holding a rifle visible
Seen happening
  • Two men in uniform operate a cannon on a field. [frame:1]
  • A man lies prone on the ground holding a rifle. [frame:2]
Seen
cannon, rifle, uniforms, cap
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: military, war, action; style notes: static medium shots, sepia-toned, period costume detail visible

Two men in period uniforms work with a cannon on a field; a separate shot shows a man lying prone with a rifle. No dialogue or on-screen text is present in these frames.

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 1:00:21 (passage 1:00:14–1:00:34); US record: Copyright term expired

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