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The General · Beat 78 · permalink

Train

20:54–21:10 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; 0 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 20:5620:56Frame at 21:0221:02Frame at 21:0821:08

Play from 20:54 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 26 · shots 191–193. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
train (train, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in light shirt and dark pants, average build visible
  • multiple figures on ground, indistinct visible
Seen happening
  • man swings long pole on moving train car [frame:1]
  • man bends over inside train car [frame:2]
  • man swings pole again with figures running on ground in background [frame:3]
Seen
long pole, train car interior, running figures on ground
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: action; themes: chase, physical comedy, train travel; style notes: wide shots, sepia tone, dynamic movement

A man on a moving train car swings a long pole while other figures run on the ground nearby. He then bends over inside the train car, and the scene returns to him swinging the pole with the running figures visible in the background.

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 20:56 (passage 20:54–21:10); US record: Copyright term expired

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