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The General · Beat 210 · permalink

Forest

1:00:34–1:00:52 Released 1927; registered 1926

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:00:351:00:35Frame at 1:00:381:00:38Frame at 1:00:471:00:47Frame at 1:00:511:00:51

Play from 1:00:34 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 79 · shots 476–480. 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
  • soldier in uniform and cap, standing beside cannon visible
  • soldier in uniform and cap, seen from behind near cannon visible
  • group of soldiers in combat, silhouetted against smoke and fire visible
Seen happening
  • A soldier stands beside a cannon in a wooded area. [frame:1]
  • A soldier fires a cannon, producing smoke. [frame:2]
  • A soldier walks away from a cannon in a wooded area. [frame:3]
  • Soldiers are engaged in combat with smoke and fire in the background. [frame:4]
Seen
cannon [frame:1], cannon [frame:2], cannon [frame:3], soldiers in combat [frame:4]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: war, military action, combat; style notes: static shots, sepia-toned, wide framing of battlefield action

A soldier operates a cannon in a wooded area, followed by a scene of soldiers in combat with smoke and fire. No names or dialogue are provided in the frames or transcript for this beat.

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 1:00:35 (passage 1:00:34–1:00:52); US record: Copyright term expired

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