Dirt road

1:02:22–1:02:37 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). 2 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.

1:02:25

1:02:33

Play from 1:02:22 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 81 · shots 494–495. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place

dirt road (road, exterior) evidence: frame:1

People

soldiers on horseback, wearing uniforms, indistinct features due to distance and film quality visible
one soldier on foot, standing near the road, wearing uniform visible

Seen happening

soldiers on horseback move along a dirt road [frame:1]
dust rises behind the moving cavalry [frame:2]

Seen

horses [frame:1], dirt road [frame:1], small building [frame:1], trees [frame:1], dust cloud [frame:2]

Interpretation

Model opinion, not evidence: mood: mobilization or retreat; themes: military movement, rural setting, historical war; style notes: wide shot, natural lighting, sepia tone, static camera, long shot scale

A large group of soldiers on horseback moves along a dirt road near a small building, with dust rising behind them. The scene is set outdoors in daylight, with trees and open land visible.

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 1:02:25 (passage 1:02:22–1:02:37); US record: Copyright term expired

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Cite: Public Reel, "The General (1927), 1:02:22–1:02:37", https://publicreel.org/moment/TheGeneral/b216, from Internet Archive item TheGeneral, retrieved 6 September 2026.

Dirt road

Evidence and details

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