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The General · Beat 44 · permalink

Train

11:23–11:39 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 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 11:2411:24Frame at 11:3011:30Frame at 11:3711:37

Play from 11:23 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 16 · shots 113–115. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
train (train, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • silhouetted figure inside a train cab, wearing a dark shirt, visible from the chest up visible
  • silhouetted figure standing on top of a train car, wearing a hat and long coat visible
Seen happening
  • A person is visible inside the cab of a moving train. [frame:1]
  • A person stands on top of a moving train car marked 'W.&A.R.R.'. [frame:2]
  • A person is visible on the roof of the train's cab. [frame:3]
Seen
train [frame:1], W.&A.R.R. lettering [frame:2], trees [frame:3]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and dynamic; themes: movement, railroad, pursuit; style notes: silhouetted figures against a warm, saturated sky; medium and long shots emphasizing motion and scale

A person is visible inside a train cab, while another stands on top of a moving train car marked 'W.&A.R.R.' under an orange sky. The train is in motion through a landscape with trees visible in the background.

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 11:24 (passage 11:23–11:39); US record: Copyright term expired

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