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The General · Beat 52 · permalink

Field

13:43–13:55 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; 0 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 13:4713:47Frame at 13:5313:53

Play from 13:43 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 17 · shots 132–133. 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 on horseback, wearing dark clothing, visible from side visible
  • person in white shirt, seen from behind, standing on train engine visible
Seen happening
  • A man on horseback is visible near a train on a dirt track. [frame:1]
  • A view from behind a moving train engine shows it traveling through a wooded area. [frame:2]
Seen
horse [frame:1], train engine [frame:2], wooden fence [frame:1], trees [frame:1, frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: pursuit, railroad, outdoor action; style notes: static wide shots, sepia tone, low contrast, natural outdoor lighting

A man on horseback is seen near a train on a dirt track, with a second shot showing a view from behind a train engine moving through a wooded area. No dialogue or on-screen text is present in these frames.

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 13:47 (passage 13:43–13:55); US record: Copyright term expired

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