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The General · Beat 53 · permalink

Train

13:55–13:59 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; 1 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 13:5713:57

Play from 13:55 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 18 · shots 134–134. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
train (train, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man wearing a light-colored shirt and dark trousers, seen from behind, medium build visible
Seen happening
  • A man stands on the rear platform of a train car, leaning over debris. [frame:1]
Seen
train car [frame:1], pile of debris [frame:1], trees or brush [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: neutral, observational; themes: transportation, manual labor, outdoor setting; style notes: static medium shot, natural outdoor lighting, grainy film texture

A man in a light shirt and dark trousers stands on the rear platform of a train car, leaning forward over a pile of debris. The train is outdoors, surrounded by trees or brush, and the scene is captured in a single static shot.

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 13:57 (passage 13:55–13:59); US record: Copyright term expired

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