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The General · Beat 222 · permalink

Wooden building exterior

1:05:00–1:05:14 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 1:05:061:05:06Frame at 1:05:121:05:12

Play from 1:05:00 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 82 · shots 509–510. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
wooden building exterior (other, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in military uniform with hat and belt, visible in frame 1 visible
  • man in civilian coat, visible in frame 1 visible
  • man in cap and light shirt, visible in frame 2 visible
  • woman in light dress, visible in frame 2 visible
Seen
{'item': 'wooden building with window', 'frame': 1}, {'item': 'military uniform with belt', 'frame': 1}, {'item': 'civilian coat', 'frame': 1}, {'item': 'wooden bench or platform', 'frame': 2}
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: neutral; themes: military, civilian interaction, historical setting; style notes: static medium shots, sepia-toned, period costume, outdoor natural lighting

Two frames show characters in period military and civilian attire outdoors near a wooden building and later standing together. No dialogue or on-screen text is present in the supplied frames or transcript for this beat.

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 1:05:06 (passage 1:05:00–1:05:14); US record: Copyright term expired

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