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The General · Beat 94 · permalink

Private office

25:42–25:44 Released 1927; registered 1926

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 2 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 25:4325:43

Play from 25:42 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

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Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 32 · shots 234–234. 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
  • man with mustache, dark military uniform with epaulets, seated visible
  • man with beard, dark military uniform with epaulets, seated, hand near mouth visible
Seen
{'item': 'map on table', 'evidence': 'frame:1'} [frame:1], {'item': 'military uniforms with epaulets', 'evidence': 'frame:1'} [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: serious; themes: military planning, tension; style notes: medium shot, static framing, dim studio lighting

Two men in dark military uniforms sit at a table with a map. One man holds his hand to his mouth while the other looks at the map.

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 25:43 (passage 25:42–25:44); US record: Copyright term expired

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