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The General · Beat 45 · permalink

Battlefield

11:39–11:57 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). 3 quotes checked against the transcript; 2 names 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 11:4211:42Frame at 11:4611:46Frame at 11:5311:53

Play from 11:39 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 16 · shots 116–118. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
battlefield (battlefield, exterior) evidence: frame:1, frame:3
People
  • man in light-colored uniform, bent over, working on cannon base visible
  • man in light-colored uniform, standing near cannon barrel, holding tool visible
Seen happening
  • Two men in uniform work on a cannon [frame:1]
  • Cannon and surrounding terrain shown from distance [frame:2]
  • One man stands near cannon barrel while another works at its base [frame:3]
Also said
“Amen.” 11:54
Seen
cannon [frame:1, frame:2, frame:3], uniforms [frame:1, frame:3], tool [frame:1, frame:3]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense or ritualistic due to repeated 'Amen' over military activity; themes: military duty, ritual, warfare; style notes: static medium shots, sepia-toned, low contrast, period costume and prop detail visible

Two men in period uniforms work on a large cannon outdoors; one is bent over the cannon's base while the other stands near its barrel. The transcript contains three instances of the word 'Amen' spoken during this interval.

“Amen.” 11:44 · “Amen.” 11:52 automatic transcript, may be wrong

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 11:42 (passage 11:39–11:57); US record: Copyright term expired

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