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The General · Beat 64 · permalink

Forest

16:25–16:37 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 name checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 16:2916:29Frame at 16:3616:36

Play from 16:25 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 22 · shots 160–161. 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
  • man wearing period clothing, possibly 19th century, carrying a long object over his shoulder visible
Seen happening
  • a train moves through a wooded area [frame:1]
  • a man enters a train car [frame:2]
Seen
train [frame:1], long object carried by man [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and action-oriented; themes: transportation, movement, historical setting; style notes: static medium shots, sepia-toned, period costume visible

A train is seen moving through a dusty, wooded area, followed by a man in period clothing entering a train car. 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 16:29 (passage 16:25–16:37); US record: Copyright term expired

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