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The General · Beat 30 · permalink

Railroad tracks

7:31–7:51 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 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 7:387:38Frame at 7:487:48

Play from 7:31 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 15 · shots 69–70. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
railroad tracks (other, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • men in dark clothing, running visible
Seen happening
  • men run along railroad tracks [frame:1]
  • men continue running on tracks, some falling or stumbling [frame:2]
Seen
railroad tracks, trees, wooden ties
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: urgent; themes: pursuit, railroad; style notes: wide shot, static camera, natural lighting, sepia tone

A group of men runs along railroad tracks in a wooded area. The scene is shot from a distance, showing the tracks receding into the background.

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 7:38 (passage 7:31–7:51); US record: Copyright term expired

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