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The General · Beat 219 · permalink

Train

1:03:49–1:04:05 Released 1927; registered 1926

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 4 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:03:531:03:53Frame at 1:03:571:03:57Frame at 1:04:011:04:01Frame at 1:04:051:04:05

Play from 1:03:49 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 82 · shots 498–501. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
train (train, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in light-colored military uniform, standing near train visible
  • man in dark military uniform with hat, standing near train visible
  • man in light uniform with hat, standing on wooden steps visible
  • woman in long dress, embracing man on steps visible
Seen
train car with letter W [frame:1], wooden steps [frame:4], military uniforms [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense or dramatic; themes: military, reunion, train travel; style notes: static medium shots, sepia-toned, period costume detail visible

Two men in period military uniforms stand near a train car; one appears to be an officer. In another shot, a man and a woman embrace on wooden steps near the same train.

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 1:03:53 (passage 1:03:49–1:04:05); US record: Copyright term expired

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