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The General · Beat 83 · permalink

Vehicle interior

22:19–22:37 Released 1927; registered 1926

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 1 quote checked against the transcript; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 4 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 22:2222:22Frame at 22:2622:26Frame at 22:2822:28Frame at 22:3422:34

Play from 22:19 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 26 · shots 207–210. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
vehicle_interior (vehicle interior, interior) evidence: frame:2
People
  • person with dark hair, wearing a light-colored shirt, leaning forward inside a vehicle visible
  • person with dark hair, wearing a light-colored dress with puffed sleeves, seated visible
Seen happening
  • A wooden trestle bridge is visible outdoors with foliage in the foreground. [frame:1]
  • A person leans forward inside a vehicle interior. [frame:2]
  • A person in a light-colored dress is seated indoors. [frame:3]
  • The wooden trestle bridge is shown again outdoors. [frame:4]
Seen
wooden trestle bridge [frame:1], vehicle interior with controls [frame:2], light-colored dress with puffed sleeves [frame:3]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: neutral to solemn; themes: transportation, interior vs exterior space; style notes: static shots, sepia-toned, medium close-ups and wide shots, no dynamic camera movement

A person is visible inside a vehicle interior while another person is shown in a separate shot; an outdoor scene with a wooden trestle bridge appears in two frames. The transcript contains only the word 'Amen' at 22:21.

“Amen.” 22:21 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 22:22 (passage 22:19–22:37); US record: Copyright term expired

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