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The General · Beat 55 · permalink

Forest

14:00–14:04 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; 1 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 14:0014:00Frame at 14:0114:01Frame at 14:0314:03Frame at 14:0314:03

Play from 14:00 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 19 · shots 136–140. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
forest (forest, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • wearing dark clothing, visible from behind, climbing over debris visible
Seen happening
  • A person is visible on a pile of wooden debris. [frame:1]
  • The person moves across the debris pile. [frame:2]
  • The person continues moving over the wreckage. [frame:3]
  • The person stands upright on the debris. [frame:4]
Seen
wooden debris [frame:1], trees [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: destruction, movement through wreckage; style notes: static medium shots, natural outdoor lighting, high contrast between debris and foliage

A person moves across a pile of wooden debris in a wooded area. The scene is shot in daylight with natural lighting and shows no indoor 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 14:00 (passage 14:00–14:04); US record: Copyright term expired

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