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The General · Beat 69 · permalink

Railroad

17:53–18:04 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 17:5517:55Frame at 18:0118:01

Play from 17:53 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 23 · shots 169–170. 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
  • person visible in train cab, wearing light-colored shirt visible
  • person standing on debris, wearing dark clothing visible
Seen
train [frame:1], railroad tracks [frame:1], debris [frame:2], trees [frame:1], distant building [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: transportation, obstacle; style notes: wide shot, sepia tone, static camera, outdoor natural lighting

A train moves along tracks with a person visible in the cab; another person stands on debris near the tracks. The setting appears to be outdoors with trees and a distant building.

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 17:55 (passage 17:53–18:04); US record: Copyright term expired

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