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The General · Beat 49 · permalink

Field

12:50–13:03 Released 1927; registered 1926

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 1 name checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 2 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 12:5412:54Frame at 13:0013:00

Play from 12:50 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 17 · shots 126–127. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
field (field, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man wearing a yellow shirt and dark pants, appears to be of average build visible
Seen happening
  • man stands beside a large cannon on railway tracks [frame:1]
  • man sits on a wooden structure near the cannon [frame:2]
Seen
cannon [frame:1], railway tracks [frame:1], wooden structure [frame:2], smoke [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense or anticipatory; themes: war, isolation, mechanical warfare; style notes: static medium shots, sepia-toned, natural outdoor lighting, wide framing showing environment

A man in a yellow shirt and dark pants is seen near a large cannon on railway tracks in an open field. He moves from standing beside the cannon to sitting on a wooden structure nearby, with smoke 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 12:54 (passage 12:50–13:03); US record: Copyright term expired

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