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The General · Beat 80 · permalink

Field

21:26–21:47 Released 1927; registered 1926

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 21:3221:32Frame at 21:4021:40Frame at 21:4521:45

Play from 21:26 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 26 · shots 198–200. 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
  • man in light shirt and dark pants, standing near wooden planks visible
  • group of men in dark uniforms, marching in formation visible
  • group of men in vests and hats, some standing, one seated visible
Seen
wooden planks [frame:1], horses [frame:1], military uniforms [frame:2], hats and vests [frame:3]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense or active; themes: military, outdoor labor, group dynamics; style notes: wide shots, natural outdoor lighting, period costumes, static camera

A group of men in period attire are seen outdoors near wooden planks and trees; another shot shows a large formation of soldiers marching across a field; a third shows several men in vests and hats gathered around a seated man. No spoken dialogue or on-screen text is present in this beat.

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 21:32 (passage 21:26–21:47); US record: Copyright term expired

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