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The General · Beat 86 · permalink

Field

23:11–23:31 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 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 23:1323:13Frame at 23:1523:15Frame at 23:2323:23

Play from 23:11 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 27 · shots 218–220. 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
  • men in period attire, some climbing or standing on a train car visible
  • man in light shirt, dark trousers, suspenders, and bow tie, standing in brush visible
Seen happening
  • a train car is visible on a track beside brush [frame:1]
  • men are on top of a train car marked 'G.A.R.R.' [frame:2]
  • a man in period attire stands in a wooded area [frame:3]
Seen
train car, G.A.R.R. lettering on train car, men on train car, man in suspenders and bow tie, brush and trees
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: railroad, chase, period costume; style notes: static medium shots, sepia tone, natural outdoor lighting

A train car is shown on a track beside brush, followed by men on top of a car marked 'G.A.R.R.', and then a man in period attire standing in a wooded area. 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 23:13 (passage 23:11–23:31); US record: Copyright term expired

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