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The General · Beat 85 · permalink

Train

22:47–23:11 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). 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 22:5122:51Frame at 22:5422:54Frame at 22:5922:59Frame at 23:0623:06

Play from 22:47 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 27 · shots 213–217. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
train (train, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man wearing suspenders and light shirt, standing on train roof visible
  • man wearing hat, seated on train roof visible
Seen happening
  • man in suspenders stands on top of train car [frame:2]
  • man in hat remains seated on train roof [frame:3]
Seen
train engine [frame:1], train roof [frame:2], rocky terrain [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: transportation, action, outdoor setting; style notes: static medium shots, high contrast lighting, sepia tone, wide framing to show environment

A man in suspenders stands on top of a moving train car while another man sits nearby; the train moves through a rocky landscape. No names or dialogue are provided in the transcript for this segment.

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 22:51 (passage 22:47–23:11); US record: Copyright term expired

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