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The General · Beat 213 · permalink

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1:01:28–1:01:47 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). 4 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:01:301:01:30Frame at 1:01:351:01:35Frame at 1:01:391:01:39Frame at 1:01:451:01:45

Play from 1:01:28 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 80 · shots 484–487. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
field (field, exterior) evidence: frame:4
People
  • man in uniform operating a cannon visible
  • man in hat standing on train visible
  • man in white shirt standing near train visible
  • group of soldiers running visible
Seen happening
  • A man fires a cannon mounted on a train. [frame:1]
  • Soldiers run alongside railway tracks. [frame:4]
Seen
cannon [frame:1], train [frame:2], railway tracks [frame:4], soldiers [frame:4]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: war, movement, military action; style notes: wide shots, outdoor lighting, sepia tone, static camera

A cannon is fired from a train, followed by a wide shot of soldiers running alongside railway tracks. The scene is set outdoors in a wooded area during daylight.

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 1:01:30 (passage 1:01:28–1:01:47); US record: Copyright term expired

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