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The General · Beat 51 · permalink

Field

13:23–13:43 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). 1 name checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 13:2913:29Frame at 13:3913:39

Play from 13:23 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 17 · shots 130–131. 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, frame:2
People
  • man wearing light shirt and dark pants, climbing on train car visible
Seen happening
  • man climbs on side of moving train car [frame:1]
  • cannon mounted on flatcar on railway track [frame:2]
Seen
cannon, train car, railway track
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: action, transportation, warfare; style notes: static medium shots, sepia tone, outdoor natural lighting

A man climbs on a moving train car while a cannon is shown mounted on a flatcar. The setting appears to be outdoors during daylight with no visible structures.

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 13:29 (passage 13:23–13:43); US record: Copyright term expired

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