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The General · Beat 38 · permalink

Railroad

9:52–10:08 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; 2 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 9:569:56Frame at 10:0310:03Frame at 10:0710:07

Play from 9:52 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 15 · shots 94–96. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
railroad (other, exterior) evidence: frame:1, frame:2, frame:3
People
  • man in dark clothing, visible from behind, standing on a moving train visible
Seen happening
  • A man stands on the side of a moving train car. [frame:1]
  • A steam locomotive is shown on railroad tracks. [frame:2]
  • A flatcar carries a large object, possibly machinery, on the train. [frame:3]
Seen
steam locomotive [frame:2], railroad tracks [frame:1, frame:2], flatcar [frame:3], large object on flatcar [frame:3]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense, action-oriented; themes: transportation, mechanical movement, railroad setting; style notes: static shots, medium to long framing, sepia-toned, early cinema lighting

A man is seen on a moving train, followed by a shot of a steam locomotive on tracks, then a view of a flatcar carrying a large object. 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 9:56 (passage 9:52–10:08); US record: Copyright term expired

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