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The General · Beat 217 · permalink

Field

1:02:37–1:03:01 Released 1927; registered 1926

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 1 quote checked against the transcript; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:02:491:02:49

Play from 1:02:37 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 81 · shots 496–496. 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
  • soldiers on horseback, wearing uniforms visible
  • soldiers on foot, wearing uniforms, near a wagon visible
Seen happening
  • Soldiers on horseback and on foot are gathered near a wagon. [frame:1]
Seen
horses [frame:1], wagon [frame:1], soldiers' uniforms [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: solemn or ceremonial; themes: military, ceremony; style notes: static wide shot, sepia tone, silent film era framing

A group of soldiers on horseback and on foot are gathered near a wagon in an outdoor setting. The transcript contains only the word 'Amen' spoken at 62:58.

“Amen.” 62:58 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 1:02:49 (passage 1:02:37–1:03:01); US record: Copyright term expired

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