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The General · Beat 24 · permalink

Railroad track

5:47–6:01 Released 1927; registered 1926

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 3 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 5:525:52Frame at 5:595:59

Play from 5:47 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 15 · shots 49–50. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
railroad track (other, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in period military-style uniform, walking near train visible
  • man in period attire, standing on train step visible
  • woman wearing bonnet and shawl, standing in field visible
Seen
{'item': 'steam train', 'frame': 1}, {'item': 'wooden building', 'frame': 1}, {'item': 'bonnet and shawl', 'frame': 2}
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: neutral; themes: transportation, historical setting; style notes: static medium shots, sepia-toned, period costume detail visible

A man in period attire walks near a train while another person stands on the train's step; a woman in a bonnet and shawl is shown in a separate shot. No dialogue or on-screen text is present in these frames.

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 5:52 (passage 5:47–6:01); US record: Copyright term expired

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