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The General · Beat 70 · permalink

Vehicle interior

18:04–18:47 Released 1927; registered 1926

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 18:2518:25

Play from 18:04 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 24 · shots 171–171. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
vehicle_interior (vehicle interior, interior) evidence: frame:1
Seen
steam locomotive [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: neutral; style notes: static medium shot, monochrome, low contrast, grainy film texture

A single frame shows a side view of a steam locomotive in motion. No people, dialogue, or on-screen text are visible in the provided frame.

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 18:25 (passage 18:04–18:47); US record: Copyright term expired

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