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The General · Beat 32 · permalink

Field

8:06–8:25 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 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 8:098:09Frame at 8:168:16Frame at 8:228:22

Play from 8:06 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 15 · shots 73–75. 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
  • person visible on the front of a moving train, wearing dark clothing visible
Seen happening
  • A train moves along tracks through a rural landscape with a person on the front. [frame:1]
  • The train passes a small settlement with wooden buildings. [frame:2]
  • The train continues on the tracks with a person standing on the front. [frame:3]
Seen
train [frame:1], railroad tracks [frame:1], wooden buildings [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: neutral; themes: transportation, rural landscape, movement; style notes: wide shots, natural lighting, static camera, rural setting

A train moves along tracks through a rural landscape, with a person visible on the front of the engine. The scene shifts to show the train passing a small settlement with wooden buildings, then returns to a view of the train on the tracks with a person standing on the front.

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 8:09 (passage 8:06–8:25); US record: Copyright term expired

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