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1:01:47–1:02:06 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.

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Play from 1:01:47 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 80 · shots 488–491. 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 uniform, standing near cannon visible
man in uniform, operating cannon visible
person on top of moving train visible

Seen happening

Two men in uniform stand beside a cannon. [frame:1]
Smoke erupts from the cannon near a train car. [frame:2]
A train moves along a track with a person on its roof. [frame:3]
A flag waves in a wooded area. [frame:4]

Seen

cannon [frame:1], train [frame:2], flag [frame:4]

Interpretation

Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: warfare, transportation, conflict; style notes: static shots, sepia tone, wide framing for action

A cannon is fired near a train, producing smoke that billows around the train car. The train is shown moving along a track with a person visible on its roof, and a flag is seen waving in a wooded area.

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 1:01:49 (passage 1:01:47–1:02:06); US record: Copyright term expired

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Cite: Public Reel, "The General (1927), 1:01:47–1:02:06", https://publicreel.org/moment/TheGeneral/b214, from Internet Archive item TheGeneral, retrieved 6 September 2026.

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