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The General · Beat 91 · permalink

Private office

24:48–25:08 Released 1927; registered 1926

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 4 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 24:4924:49Frame at 24:5324:53Frame at 24:5924:59Frame at 25:0625:06

Play from 24:48 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 29 · shots 228–231. 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:2
People
  • man in dark military uniform, seated at table visible
  • man in dark military uniform, seated at table, mustache visible
  • man in dark military uniform, seated at table, bearded visible
  • man lying down, wearing dark clothing visible
Seen
{'item': 'wooden table with white tablecloth', 'evidence': 'frame:2'} [frame:2], {'item': 'military uniforms with epaulets', 'evidence': 'frame:4'} [frame:4], {'item': 'wooden chair', 'evidence': 'frame:3'} [frame:3]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: serious; themes: military, strategy, tension; style notes: static medium shots, dim lighting, sepia tone, period costume

A group of men in military uniforms are gathered around a table in a dimly lit room. One man is seen lying down in a separate shot, while two others are shown seated at the table in close-up.

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 24:49 (passage 24:48–25:08); US record: Copyright term expired

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