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The General · Beat 21 · permalink

Sidewalk

5:04–5:21 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). 1 quote checked against the transcript; 4 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 5:075:07Frame at 5:145:14Frame at 5:175:17Frame at 5:205:20

Play from 5:04 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 14 · shots 39–44. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
sidewalk (sidewalk, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in a uniform and cap, seen from behind visible
  • woman in a bonnet and light dress visible
  • man in a yellow shirt and dark pants, standing near a train car visible
  • woman in a dark dress and hat, standing near a train visible
Seen happening
  • A man in a uniform walks past a woman in a bonnet. [frame:2]
  • A man in a yellow shirt stands near a train car. [frame:3]
  • A group of people, including a woman in a dark dress, are visible near the train. [frame:4]
Seen
train car [frame:3], bonnet [frame:2], uniform [frame:1], yellow shirt [frame:3]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: neutral; themes: train travel, public gathering; style notes: static medium shots, natural lighting, period costumes

A man in a uniform walks past a woman in a bonnet; another man in a yellow shirt stands near a train car. A group of people, including a woman in a dark dress, are visible near the train. The transcript contains only the word 'Amen.'

“Amen.” 5:10 automatic transcript, may be wrong

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 5:07 (passage 5:04–5:21); US record: Copyright term expired

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