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The General · Beat 60 · permalink

Forest

15:09–15:29 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). 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 15:1915:19

Play from 15:09 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 19 · shots 154–154. 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
  • visible near train, dark clothing, small figure visible
  • visible on top of train car, light-colored clothing visible
Seen happening
  • A train is stopped on tracks in a forested area. [frame:1]
Seen
train [frame:1], railroad tracks [frame:1], trees [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense or suspenseful; themes: transportation, outdoor setting, action; style notes: wide shot, natural lighting, static camera, period costume visible

A train is stopped on tracks in a wooded area with at least one person near it. No dialogue or on-screen text is present 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 15:19 (passage 15:09–15:29); US record: Copyright term expired

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