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The General · Beat 25 · permalink

Train

6:01–6:18 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 6:036:03Frame at 6:076:07Frame at 6:106:10Frame at 6:156:15

Play from 6:01 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 15 · shots 51–54. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
train (train, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man wearing a hat and dark coat, carrying a bag visible
  • man wearing a light-colored shirt and dark pants visible
  • man wearing a hat and dark coat, standing near a doorway visible
Seen
wooden crates, train car with 'R.R.' lettering, bag
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and hurried; themes: movement, transportation, clandestine activity; style notes: static medium shots, dim lighting, sepia tone, period costume

A man in a hat and coat moves through a dimly lit interior space with wooden crates and a train car visible. Another man in a light shirt is seen near crates, and a third man in a dark coat and hat stands by a doorway holding a bag.

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 6:03 (passage 6:01–6:18); US record: Copyright term expired

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