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The General · Beat 72 · permalink

Field

19:03–19:23 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 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 19:0619:06Frame at 19:1119:11Frame at 19:1819:18

Play from 19:03 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 25 · shots 176–178. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
field (field, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • person in light-colored shirt and dark pants, visible from behind, reaching upward visible
Seen happening
  • smoke rises from a train near a wooden fence and trees [frame:1]
  • a person reaches upward from inside a train cab [frame:3]
Seen
train [frame:1], wooden fence [frame:1], trees [frame:1], train cab interior [frame:3]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: neutral; themes: transportation, manual labor; style notes: static medium shots, sepia-toned, natural outdoor lighting

A train emits smoke near a wooden fence and trees; a person in light clothing reaches upward from the train's cab. No names or dialogue are spoken in the supplied transcript lines.

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 19:06 (passage 19:03–19:23); US record: Copyright term expired

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