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The General · Beat 31 · permalink

Railroad tracks

7:51–8:06 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). 2 names 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 7:537:53Frame at 8:018:01

Play from 7:51 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 15 · shots 71–72. 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
  • man in dark clothing, standing on a switch visible
  • group of men in light shirts and dark pants, standing beside train visible
Seen happening
  • A man stands on a railroad switch. [frame:1]
  • A group of men stand beside a train on the tracks. [frame:2]
Seen
railroad switch, railroad tracks, train, men's clothing (light shirts, dark pants)
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: railroad, manual labor, group action; style notes: static wide shots, sepia tone, natural outdoor lighting

A man stands on a railroad switch near tracks; later, a group of men stand beside a train on the same tracks. 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 7:53 (passage 7:51–8:06); US record: Copyright term expired

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