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The General · Beat 6 · permalink

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1:53–2:09 Released 1927; registered 1926

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:551:55Frame at 2:032:03

Play from 1:53 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 2 · shots 19–20. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
other (other) evidence: frame:1, frame:2
People
  • woman, dark hair, light-colored dress with ruffles visible
  • man, light hair, dark suit, leaning over a table visible
Seen
wooden fence [frame:1], table [frame:2], small object on table (possibly a device or tool) [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: neutral; style notes: static shots, medium close-ups, muted color palette typical of early cinema

A woman in a light dress stands outdoors near a wooden fence; a man in dark clothing leans over a table indoors. No names, dialogue, or events are established in this beat.

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 1:55 (passage 1:53–2:09); US record: Copyright term expired

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