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The General · Beat 26 · permalink

Train

6:18–6:40 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 6:236:23Frame at 6:306:30Frame at 6:366:36

Play from 6:18 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 15 · shots 55–57. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
train (train, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in dark coat and hat, standing beside train visible
  • man in top hat and vest, standing indoors visible
  • woman in light dress and bonnet, seated indoors visible
Seen
freight train [frame:1], wooden crates [frame:3], top hat [frame:2], bonnet [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: neutral; themes: transportation, social interaction; style notes: static medium shots, sepia-toned, early cinema framing

A group of men stands beside a freight train on a dirt track; one man in a hat gestures while another looks on. The scene cuts to an interior where a man in a top hat speaks to a seated woman and another man. The final shot returns to the train, showing a boxcar and scattered crates on the ground.

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 6:23 (passage 6:18–6:40); US record: Copyright term expired

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