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The General · Beat 9 · permalink

Railroad yard

2:33–3:00 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 quotes checked against the transcript; 1 name checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 2:472:47

Play from 2:33 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 4 · shots 27–27. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
railroad yard (other, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man wearing light-colored shirt and dark pants, sitting on ground visible
Seen happening
  • A man sits on the ground next to a locomotive. [frame:1]
Also said
“Amen.” 2:58
Seen
steam locomotive [frame:1], man's clothing (light shirt, dark pants) [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: solemn or ritualistic, due to repeated 'Amen' and static shot; themes: ritual, solitude, mechanical vs. human; style notes: static medium shot, sepia-toned, low contrast, typical of 1927 silent film

A man sits on the ground beside a large steam locomotive. The transcript contains three instances of the word 'Amen' spoken at 2:44, 2:46, and 2:58.

“Amen.” 2:44 · “Amen.” 2:46 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 2:47 (passage 2:33–3:00); US record: Copyright term expired

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