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Battlefield

20:37–20:54 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; 0 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 20:4520:45

Play from 20:37 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 26 · shots 190–190. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
battlefield (battlefield, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • small, distant figures in dark clothing, running visible
Seen happening
  • Figures run across a dusty field past large, dark objects. [frame:1]
Seen
large dark objects, dust or smoke
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: chaotic and tense; themes: war, movement, obscured vision; style notes: wide shot, low visibility due to haze, monochrome with yellow tint, static camera

A wide shot shows figures running across a dusty, hazy landscape with large, dark objects in the foreground. The scene is dimly lit with a yellowish tint, suggesting either dawn, dusk, or smoke-filled air.

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 20:45 (passage 20:37–20:54); US record: Copyright term expired

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