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The General · Beat 71 · permalink

Railway

18:47–19:03 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; 1 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 18:4918:49Frame at 18:5218:52Frame at 18:5618:56Frame at 19:0119:01

Play from 18:47 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 25 · shots 172–175. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
railway (other, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • person seen from behind, wearing light-colored clothing, on railway tracks visible
Seen happening
  • A person stands on railway tracks as a train approaches in the distance. [frame:1]
  • Close-up of debris or wreckage near a structure. [frame:2]
  • Wide shot of a rural landscape with a wooden fence and trees. [frame:3]
  • Frame is obscured by haze or smoke, details indistinct. [frame:4]
Seen
railway tracks [frame:1], train [frame:1], wooden fence [frame:3], trees [frame:3], debris or wreckage [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and atmospheric; themes: railway, rural landscape, obscured action; style notes: uses wide shots for scale, close-ups for detail, and obscured frames for mystery; lighting is hazy and warm-toned

A person is seen on a railway track with a train approaching in the distance, followed by a close-up of debris and then a wide shot of a rural landscape with a fence and trees. The final frame is obscured by haze or smoke.

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 18:49 (passage 18:47–19:03); US record: Copyright term expired

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