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The General · Beat 57 · permalink

Forest

14:08–14:28 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 quote checked against the transcript; 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 14:1014:10Frame at 14:1614:16Frame at 14:2314:23

Play from 14:08 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 19 · shots 142–144. 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
  • man in hat and dark coat, standing on train car visible
  • man in hat and light pants, standing on train car visible
  • man climbing onto locomotive, wearing dark clothes visible
Seen happening
  • Three men stand on top of a moving train car. [frame:1]
  • One man climbs onto the front of a locomotive. [frame:2]
  • An explosion erupts near the train tracks. [frame:3]
Seen
train car [frame:1], locomotive [frame:2], explosion [frame:3], railroad tracks [frame:3]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and action-oriented; themes: chase, danger, railroad adventure; style notes: wide shots, natural outdoor lighting, static camera, sepia-toned film

Three men stand atop a moving train car as it travels through a wooded area; one man climbs onto the locomotive while another explosion occurs near the tracks. No names are spoken, and the setting is outdoors during daylight.

“Amen.” 14:26 automatic transcript, may be wrong

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 14:10 (passage 14:08–14:28); US record: Copyright term expired

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