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The General · Beat 28 · permalink

Field

6:54–7:14 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; 0 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 6:576:57Frame at 7:047:04Frame at 7:117:11

Play from 6:54 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 15 · shots 61–63. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
field (field, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in light shirt and dark pants, running visible
  • man in vest and hat, bending over another person visible
  • man lying down, being assisted visible
  • man in dark hat and light shirt, standing near p2 visible
Seen happening
  • Several men run across a dusty open area near buildings and a train track. [frame:1]
  • Men run along a set of train tracks through a wooded area. [frame:2]
  • A man in a vest and hat assists another man who is lying down. [frame:3]
Seen
train track, buildings, trees, hat, vest
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: urgent; themes: pursuit, assistance; style notes: wide shots, natural outdoor lighting, static camera

A group of men runs across a dusty yard near buildings and a train track, then runs along the tracks through a wooded area, and finally one man in a vest and hat helps another man who is lying down. 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 6:57 (passage 6:54–7:14); US record: Copyright term expired

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