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The General · Beat 36 · permalink

Train

9:15–9:33 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 9:179:17Frame at 9:209:20Frame at 9:259:25Frame at 9:309:30

Play from 9:15 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 15 · shots 85–89. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
train (train, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in uniform, standing on platform, holding a stick or pole visible
  • man in cap and jacket, walking past dark interior with hanging objects visible
  • man climbing onto train car, wearing dark clothing visible
Seen happening
  • A man in uniform stands on a wooden platform beside a train. [frame:1]
  • The man in uniform gestures with his arm while standing near the train. [frame:2]
  • A man in a cap walks past a dark interior with hanging objects. [frame:3]
  • A man climbs onto a train car loaded with sacks. [frame:4]
Seen
train [frame:1], wooden platform [frame:1], sacks [frame:4], hanging objects [frame:3]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and active; themes: movement, transportation, military activity; style notes: static medium shots, high contrast lighting, period costume, outdoor setting

A man in a uniform stands on a wooden platform beside a train while other figures move around him; later, a man in a cap walks past a dark interior with hanging objects. Another man climbs onto a train car loaded with sacks.

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 9:17 (passage 9:15–9:33); US record: Copyright term expired

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