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The General · Beat 96 · permalink

Restaurant

26:02–26:13 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 26:0426:04Frame at 26:1026:10

Play from 26:02 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 33 · shots 238–239. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
restaurant (restaurant, interior) evidence: frame:2
People
  • dark-clothed figure seated at a table, visible in profile visible
  • figure seated across table, partially obscured visible
Seen
table [frame:2], chairs [frame:2], curtains [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: dim and intimate; style notes: low-key lighting, medium shot of seated figures, static framing

Two frames show a dimly lit interior with figures seated at a table. No names, dialogue, or clear time of day are established.

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 26:04 (passage 26:02–26:13); US record: Copyright term expired

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