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The General · Beat 75 · permalink

Field

20:04–20:24 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). 2 names 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 20:0620:06Frame at 20:0920:09Frame at 20:1920:19Frame at 20:2320:23

Play from 20:04 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 25 · shots 183–187. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
field (field, exterior) evidence: frame:2, frame:3
People
  • men in period attire, some on horseback, some on top of a train visible
  • man with mustache, wearing cap and coat, inside train cab visible
Seen happening
  • Men are standing on top of a moving train marked 'W.B.A.R.R.' [frame:1]
  • A train emits smoke while moving along tracks through a field. [frame:2]
  • Men on horseback are gathered in a field, one raising his arm. [frame:3]
  • A man sits inside a train cab, surrounded by controls. [frame:4]
Seen
train [frame:1], horses [frame:3], train cab interior [frame:4]
On screen
W.B.A.R.R.
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and active; themes: railroad chase, pursuit on horseback, mechanical operation; style notes: sepia-toned, wide shots of outdoor action, close interior shot with high contrast lighting

A train marked 'W.B.A.R.R.' is shown with men on top, followed by a shot of the train emitting smoke on tracks, then a group of men on horseback in a field, and finally a man inside a train cab. No dialogue or named characters are present in this segment.

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 20:06 (passage 20:04–20:24); US record: Copyright term expired

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