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The General · Beat 79 · permalink

Field

21:10–21:26 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 quote checked against the transcript; 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 2 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 21:1321:13Frame at 21:1721:17Frame at 21:2121:21Frame at 21:2521:25

Play from 21:10 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 26 · shots 194–197. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
field (field, exterior) evidence: frame:4
People
  • person visible in train cab, wearing light-colored shirt, arm raised visible
  • group of people on top of train, indistinct due to distance and image quality visible
  • large group of soldiers on horseback, wearing dark uniforms visible
Seen happening
  • Train with 'W.B.A.R.R.' written on side is shown with people on top. [frame:1]
  • Person inside train cab raises arm. [frame:2]
  • On-screen text reads 'General Parker's victorious Northern army advancing.' [frame:3]
  • Large group of soldiers on horseback advances across field. [frame:4]
Seen
train [frame:1], train cab [frame:2], horses [frame:4]
On screen
General Parker's victorious Northern army advancing.
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: dramatic; themes: war, movement, military advance; style notes: wide shots, sepia tone, static camera, intertitles used for exposition

A train marked 'W.B.A.R.R.' is shown with people aboard, followed by a shot of a person inside a train cab. Text on screen states 'General Parker's victorious Northern army advancing,' and a large group of soldiers on horseback is seen moving across a field. No names are spoken in the transcript for any visible person.

“Amen.” 21:18 automatic transcript, may be wrong

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 21:13 (passage 21:10–21:26); US record: Copyright term expired

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