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The General · Beat 39 · permalink

Railway track

10:08–10:28 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 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 10:1110:11Frame at 10:1810:18Frame at 10:2410:24Frame at 10:2610:26

Play from 10:08 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 15 · shots 97–100. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
railway track (other, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in period uniform, carrying a large wooden beam visible
  • group of men in period uniforms, working near locomotive visible
Seen happening
  • Men are seen working around a locomotive with wooden beams. [frame:1]
  • A steam locomotive is shown on a railway track. [frame:2]
  • Men are lifting or positioning a wooden beam near the train. [frame:3]
  • A man carries a large wooden beam across his shoulder. [frame:4]
Seen
steam locomotive [frame:2], wooden beams [frame:1], railway track [frame:2], period uniforms [frame:4]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: active, labor-intensive; themes: manual labor, railway construction, historical setting; style notes: static medium shots, natural outdoor lighting, period costume detail

A group of men in period uniforms work around a steam locomotive on a railway track in an outdoor setting. One man carries a large wooden beam while others assist near the train.

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 10:11 (passage 10:08–10:28); US record: Copyright term expired

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