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The General · Beat 27 · permalink

Town square

6:40–6:54 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). 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 2 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 6:436:43Frame at 6:496:49Frame at 6:536:53

Play from 6:40 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 15 · shots 58–60. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
town_square (town square, exterior) evidence: frame:1, frame:2, frame:3
People
  • man, light-colored shirt, dark trousers, medium build visible
  • person in background, dark clothing, indistinct features visible
  • person in background, light shirt, dark trousers visible
Seen happening
  • A man stands holding papers near a wooden building. [frame:1]
  • The man runs forward, passing another person. [frame:2]
  • The man continues running, looking back over his shoulder. [frame:3]
Seen
papers [frame:1, frame:2, frame:3], wooden building [frame:1, frame:2, frame:3], cart or wagon [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: urgent; themes: movement, pursuit, everyday life; style notes: static medium shots, natural outdoor lighting, period costume, wide framing showing environment

A man in a light shirt and dark trousers moves quickly through an outdoor area with wooden buildings and other people. He is seen holding papers and running past others in what appears to be a town setting.

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 6:43 (passage 6:40–6:54); US record: Copyright term expired

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