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The General · Beat 35 · permalink

Train

8:55–9:15 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). 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 2 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 8:598:59Frame at 9:069:06Frame at 9:099:09Frame at 9:139:13

Play from 8:55 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 15 · shots 81–84. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
train (train, exterior) evidence: frame:2
People
  • man wearing a top hat and dark coat, holding a sack visible
  • man in light shirt and dark pants, seen from behind walking on train car visible
  • man in hat and light shirt, standing on platform visible
Seen happening
  • A man in a top hat holds a sack on a train platform. [frame:1]
  • A wide shot shows a train platform with crates and workers. [frame:2]
  • Men are seen running along the side of train cars. [frame:3]
  • A title card states that three men stole the General and are thought to be deserters. [frame:4]
Seen
sack, crates, train cars
On screen
Three men stole my General. I think they are deserters.
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: urgent; themes: theft, pursuit, railroad; style notes: static wide shots, sepia-toned, silent film intertitle

A man in a top hat and coat is seen holding a sack on a train platform; the scene cuts to a wider view of the platform with crates and workers, then to men running along the train cars. A title card states that three men stole the General and are thought to be deserters.

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 8:59 (passage 8:55–9:15); US record: Copyright term expired

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