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The General · Beat 81 · permalink

Field

21:47–22:05 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). 4 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 21:5121:51Frame at 21:5721:57Frame at 22:0022:00Frame at 22:0322:03

Play from 21:47 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 26 · shots 201–204. 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
  • man, light-colored shirt, visible in vehicle interior visible
  • woman, light-colored dress, outdoors near wooden structure visible
  • man, dark clothing, standing on log in field visible
  • group of soldiers on horseback, uniformed visible
Seen happening
  • A man is visible inside a vehicle interior, adjusting his clothing. [frame:1]
  • A woman is visible outdoors, leaning over a wooden structure. [frame:2]
  • A man stands on a log in a field with wagons and people in the background. [frame:3]
  • Soldiers on horseback are seen moving across a field. [frame:4]
Seen
vehicle interior [frame:1], wooden structure [frame:2], log [frame:3], wagons [frame:3], horses [frame:4], fence [frame:4]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: active, outdoor, period military; themes: military movement, outdoor action, period setting; style notes: wide shots, natural lighting, static camera, period costume

A man is seen inside a vehicle interior, then a woman is shown outside near a wooden structure. The scene shifts to a wide shot of a man standing on a log with a group of people and wagons in the background, followed by a shot of soldiers on horseback moving across a field.

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 21:51 (passage 21:47–22:05); US record: Copyright term expired

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