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The General · Beat 41 · permalink

Interior

10:44–11:04 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). 4 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 10:4610:46Frame at 10:5610:56

Play from 10:44 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 15 · shots 104–105. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
interior (other, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in vest and bow tie, holding a woman's hand visible
  • woman in light-colored dress, seated visible
  • man in vest and hat, standing visible
  • man in vest, standing behind p1 visible
Seen happening
  • A man in a vest holds a woman's hand while other men stand around them indoors. [frame:1]
  • A damaged train car is shown from above, resting on a slope. [frame:2]
Seen
train car [frame:2], vests [frame:1], hat [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: conflict, transportation accident; style notes: static medium shot indoors, high-angle exterior shot; sepia-toned, typical of 1920s silent film

A group of men in period attire are gathered indoors, one holding a woman's hand. An exterior shot shows a damaged train car on a slope. 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 10:46 (passage 10:44–11:04); US record: Copyright term expired

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