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The General · Beat 68 · permalink

Railroad

17:36–17:53 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 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 17:3817:38Frame at 17:4117:41Frame at 17:4817:48

Play from 17:36 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 23 · shots 166–168. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
railroad (other, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • figure visible on top of train car, wearing dark clothing visible
  • figure visible in doorway of train car, wearing light-colored shirt visible
  • figure visible near tracks, wearing dark clothing visible
Seen happening
  • A person stands on top of a train car. [frame:1]
  • A figure walks near the train car on the ground. [frame:2]
  • The side of the train car shows partial lettering 'A.R.R.'. [frame:3]
Seen
train car [frame:1], railroad tracks [frame:1], lettering 'A.R.R.' [frame:3]
On screen
A.R.R.
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: railroad, action, pursuit; style notes: static wide shots, sepia tone, low contrast, period costume and setting

A train car is shown on tracks with figures moving around it; one person is on top of the car. The side of the car displays partial lettering 'A.R.R.'.

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 17:38 (passage 17:36–17:53); US record: Copyright term expired

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