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The General · Beat 59 · permalink

Field

14:47–15:09 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). 3 names 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 14:4914:49Frame at 14:5314:53Frame at 14:5914:59Frame at 15:0615:06

Play from 14:47 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 19 · shots 150–153. 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
  • person near fence, wearing dark clothing, seen from behind visible
  • person inside train car, wearing dark clothing, partially visible visible
  • person inside train car, wearing light-colored shirt, partially visible visible
Seen happening
  • A train is seen moving along tracks through a hilly, wooded landscape. [frame:1]
  • A person is visible near a wooden fence beside the train tracks. [frame:2]
  • A train car and locomotive are shown stationary in a field with hills in the background. [frame:3]
  • People are visible inside a train car, near vertical bars or structure. [frame:4]
Seen
train [frame:1], fence [frame:2], train car [frame:3], locomotive [frame:3], vertical bars or structure inside train [frame:4]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and active; themes: transportation, rural setting, train travel; style notes: wide landscape shots, medium shots of action, close-up interior, sepia-toned monochrome, high contrast lighting

A train moves through a rural landscape with hills and trees, then a person is seen near a fence beside the tracks, followed by a view of a train car and locomotive in a field, and finally a close-up of people inside a train car. No dialogue or on-screen text is present.

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 14:49 (passage 14:47–15:09); US record: Copyright term expired

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