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The General · Beat 95 · permalink

Private office

25:44–26:02 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). 2 quotes checked against the transcript; 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 25:5025:50Frame at 25:5725:57Frame at 26:0026:00

Play from 25:44 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 33 · shots 235–237. 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 seen from behind, dark clothing, seated at table visible
  • man with light hair, seated at table, partially visible visible
  • person in background, light hair, seated visible
Seen happening
  • Several people are seated around a table in a dim room. [frame:1]
  • A man is seen from behind at a table, others are visible in the background. [frame:2]
  • A hand holds a small object near a textured surface. [frame:3]
Seen
table [frame:1], hand holding small object [frame:3], textured surface (possibly fabric or wall) [frame:3]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: solemn, quiet; themes: formal gathering, ritual or ceremony; style notes: dim lighting, medium and close-up shots, static framing

A dimly lit interior scene shows several people seated around a table; one person is visible from behind, another is partially visible in the background. A close-up shows a hand holding a small object near a textured surface. The transcript contains only the word 'Amen.'

“the” 25:49 · “Amen.” 26:01 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 25:50 (passage 25:44–26:02); US record: Copyright term expired

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