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The General · Beat 221 · permalink

Sidewalk

1:04:46–1:05:00 Released 1927; registered 1926

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks flagged: quote not verbatim. 2 quotes checked against the transcript; 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:04:471:04:47Frame at 1:04:511:04:51Frame at 1:04:581:04:58Frame at 1:05:001:05:00

Play from 1:04:46 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 82 · shots 504–508. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
sidewalk (sidewalk, exterior) evidence: frame:2
People
  • man in light-colored military-style uniform and cap, standing left visible
  • man in light-colored military-style uniform and wide-brimmed hat, center, hands on hips visible
  • man in light-colored military-style uniform, standing right, smiling visible
Seen happening
  • Three men in uniform stand outside a wooden building. [frame:2]
Seen
wooden building with window [frame:2], military-style uniforms and hats [frame:2], table and chair [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: military authority, compliance; style notes: static medium shot, sepia tone, intertitles used for dialogue

Three men in military-style uniforms stand outside a wooden building; one is ordered to remove his uniform. The scene includes intertitles asking about and commanding the removal of a uniform.

“'Is that your uniform?'” 64:51 · “'Take it off!'” 65:00 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 1:04:47 (passage 1:04:46–1:05:00); US record: Copyright term expired

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