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The General · Beat 87 · permalink

Underwater

23:31–23:47 Released 1927; registered 1926

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 23:3823:38Frame at 23:4623:46

Play from 23:31 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 28 · shots 221–222. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
underwater (other, exterior) evidence: frame:1
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: obscure and indistinct; style notes: extreme low visibility, dark tonal range, no clear subject

Two frames show a murky, dark underwater scene with indistinct plant-like forms, followed by a nearly black screen. No people, objects, or text are visible, and no events are depicted or mentioned.

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 23:38 (passage 23:31–23:47); US record: Copyright term expired

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