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The General · Beat 58 · permalink

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14:28–14:47 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 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 14:3114:31Frame at 14:3514:35Frame at 14:4014:40Frame at 14:4614:46

Play from 14:28 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 19 · shots 145–149. 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, frame:3, frame:4
People
  • man in dark vest and hat, standing on train roof visible
  • man in light shirt, seated on train machinery visible
  • group of men in dark clothing, visible on train roof visible
Seen happening
  • Men are standing on the roof of a moving train. [frame:1]
  • A man is seated on machinery at the front of the train. [frame:2]
  • The side of the train displays 'W&A.R.R.' and the number '42'. [frame:3]
  • A man in a light shirt operates machinery on the front of the train. [frame:4]
Seen
train [frame:1, frame:2, frame:3, frame:4], W&A.R.R. marking [frame:3], number 42 [frame:3], fence [frame:2, frame:4]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: transportation, action, railroad; style notes: static wide shots, high-contrast lighting, sepia tone, period costume

A group of men is seen on a moving train in a rural setting, with one man standing on the roof and another operating machinery. The train bears the markings 'W&A.R.R.' and the number '42'.

“Amen.” 14:33 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 14:31 (passage 14:28–14:47); US record: Copyright term expired

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