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The General · Beat 3 · permalink

Street

0:42–1:02 Released 1927; registered 1926

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks flagged: quote not verbatim. 1 quote checked against the transcript; 4 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 0:440:44Frame at 0:470:47Frame at 0:550:55Frame at 1:001:00

Play from 0:42 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 2 · shots 2–6. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
street (street, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in dark suit and tie, seen from side, walking visible
  • crowd of men and women in period clothing, some in hats, gathered on street visible
  • man in dark suit and hat, pointing at another man visible
  • man in light-colored suit and hat, being pointed at visible
Seen happening
  • A man in a dark suit walks on a dirt street. [frame:1]
  • A crowd of people gathers on the street. [frame:3]
  • A man in a dark suit points at another man in a light suit. [frame:4]
Seen
title card, hats, period clothing
On screen
If you lose this war don't blame me.
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: war, blame, public gathering; style notes: static medium shots, sepia tone, intertitle card

A man in a dark suit walks outdoors as a crowd gathers nearby. A title card displays the line 'If you lose this war don't blame me.'

“If you lose this war don't blame me.” 0:55 automatic transcript, may be wrong

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 0:44 (passage 0:42–1:02); US record: Copyright term expired

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