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The General · Beat 63 · permalink

Workshop

16:01–16:25 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 16:0616:06Frame at 16:1816:18

Play from 16:01 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 22 · shots 158–159. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
workshop (other, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in overalls, dark hair, medium build visible
  • man in white shirt, seen from behind, dark hair visible
Seen
overalls [frame:1], machinery [frame:2], white shirt [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: neutral; style notes: static medium shots, sepia tone, high contrast lighting

A man in overalls stands in a cluttered interior space; another man in a white shirt is seen from behind, leaning over machinery. No dialogue or on-screen text is present in these frames.

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 16:06 (passage 16:01–16:25); US record: Copyright term expired

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