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The General · Beat 47 · permalink

Vehicle interior

12:19–12:38 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). 0 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 12:2012:20Frame at 12:2312:23Frame at 12:3312:33Frame at 12:3712:37

Play from 12:19 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 16 · shots 120–124. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
vehicle_interior (vehicle interior, interior) evidence: frame:3
Seen happening
  • A cannon is visible on a train platform. [frame:1]
  • Men are standing on the roof of a train car marked 'W.B.A.R.R.'. [frame:2]
  • The interior of a train cabin is shown, cluttered and dimly lit. [frame:3]
  • The side of a train car marked 'W.B.A.R.R.' is shown moving through a wooded area. [frame:4]
Seen
cannon, train car with 'W.B.A.R.R.' lettering, train cabin interior, train car with 'W.B.A.R.R.' lettering
On screen
W.B.A.R.R.
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: transportation, conflict; style notes: static shots, sepia tone, high contrast lighting emphasizing silhouettes and motion

A train marked 'W.B.A.R.R.' is shown with men on its roof and a cannon visible; interior shots show a dark, cluttered cabin. No dialogue or named characters are present in this segment.

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 12:20 (passage 12:19–12:38); US record: Copyright term expired

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