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The General · Beat 29 · permalink

Train

7:14–7:31 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). 1 name checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 7:167:16Frame at 7:207:20Frame at 7:277:27Frame at 7:307:30

Play from 7:14 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 15 · shots 64–68. 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, frame:2, frame:3
People
  • man wearing overalls and a hat, medium build visible
Seen happening
  • A man stands beside a train car. [frame:1]
  • The train is moving along a track in an open area. [frame:2]
  • The man climbs a pole next to the moving train. [frame:3]
  • The man is seated at a desk inside a dim room. [frame:4]
Seen
train car [frame:1], pole [frame:3], desk [frame:4], papers [frame:4]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and active; themes: railway, physical action, transition from exterior to interior; style notes: static shots, sepia-toned, medium to long shots outdoors, close interior shot with low lighting

A man in overalls is seen near a train car, then climbing a pole beside a moving train, and finally sitting at a desk inside a dimly lit room. The setting appears to be outdoors near a railway and then transitions to an interior space.

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 7:16 (passage 7:14–7:31); US record: Copyright term expired

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