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The General · Beat 82 · permalink

Field

22:05–22:19 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). 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 22:0822:08Frame at 22:1522:15

Play from 22:05 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 26 · shots 205–206. 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 wearing hat and light shirt, riding a cart visible
  • man with dark hair and bow tie, seated indoors visible
  • multiple riders on horseback in background visible
Seen happening
  • A man rides a horse-drawn cart across a field. [frame:1]
  • A man sits inside a dimly lit room. [frame:2]
Seen
horse-drawn cart, horses, hat, bow tie, indoor furniture
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: neutral to contemplative; themes: travel, solitude, contrast between exterior and interior; style notes: static framing, wide shot outdoors, medium close-up indoors; sepia-toned, low-contrast lighting

A man rides a horse-drawn cart across an open field while others ride horses in the background; another man sits inside a dimly lit interior space. No 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 22:08 (passage 22:05–22:19); US record: Copyright term expired

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