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11:17–11:23 Released 1927; registered 1926

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 11:1911:19Frame at 11:2211:22

Play from 11:17 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 15 · shots 111–112. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
other (other, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man wearing a wide-brimmed hat and dark vest over light shirt, seen from the side visible
  • man with mustache wearing a cap and light-colored jacket, facing forward visible
Seen
wide-brimmed hat [frame:1], cap [frame:2], mustache [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense or confrontational; themes: confrontation, period drama; style notes: static medium shots, high contrast lighting, period costume

Two men in period hats are shown in close proximity in a dimly lit interior. One man turns away while the other faces forward, suggesting a brief interaction or confrontation.

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 11:19 (passage 11:17–11:23); US record: Copyright term expired

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