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The General · Beat 227 · permalink

Camp

1:06:57–1:07:19 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). 4 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:06:581:06:58Frame at 1:07:011:07:01Frame at 1:07:141:07:14Frame at 1:07:181:07:18

Play from 1:06:57 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: cutting rhythm changes. Sequence 82 · shots 527–531. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
camp (camp, exterior) evidence: frame:2
People
  • man in period military-style uniform, standing beside a woman visible
  • woman in long period dress, standing beside a man visible
  • group of soldiers in uniform, marching between tents visible
  • group of soldiers in uniform, near a train visible
Seen happening
  • A man and a woman stand beside a train. [frame:1]
  • Soldiers march between tents in a camp. [frame:2]
  • Soldiers are near a train on a track. [frame:3]
  • A dark scene with faint lights is shown. [frame:4]
Seen
train [frame:1], tents [frame:2], soldiers' uniforms [frame:2], train [frame:3], faint lights [frame:4]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: somber and historical; themes: military life, historical setting, train as central object; style notes: static shots, sepia-toned, wide framing for group scenes, close framing for couple

A man and a woman stand beside a train in one shot; soldiers march between tents in another; a train is seen with soldiers nearby; the final shot is dark with faint lights. No dialogue or on-screen text is present in 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 1:06:58 (passage 1:06:57–1:07:19); US record: Copyright term expired

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