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The General · Beat 90 · permalink

Private office

24:30–24:48 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). 4 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 24:3324:33Frame at 24:4224:42

Play from 24:30 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 29 · shots 226–227. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
private_office (private office, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • person in white shirt, mid-motion, possibly male, medium build visible
  • man in dark uniform, standing, possibly military or official visible
  • man in dark uniform, standing, possibly military or official visible
  • man in dark uniform, standing, possibly military or official visible
Seen happening
  • A person in a white shirt is mid-motion near a doorway. [frame:1]
  • Several men in dark uniforms stand around a table with a long object on it. [frame:2]
Seen
table with cloth [frame:2], long object on table [frame:2], doorway [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense or urgent; themes: military, action, interior confrontation; style notes: static medium shots, dim lighting, period costume

A person in a white shirt is seen mid-motion near a doorway in one frame, while in another frame, several men in dark uniforms stand around a table with a long object on it. 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 24:33 (passage 24:30–24:48); US record: Copyright term expired

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