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The General · Beat 97 · permalink

Private office

26:13–26:23 Released 1927; registered 1926

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 5 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 26:1626:16Frame at 26:2026:20Frame at 26:2226:22

Play from 26:13 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 34 · shots 240–242. 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 white hair, seen from behind, wearing dark coat visible
  • man with dark hair and mustache, wearing dark military uniform with epaulets visible
  • man with dark hair and mustache, wearing dark military uniform with epaulets visible
  • woman with dark hair, wearing light-colored dress with lace visible
  • man wearing dark uniform and cap, standing beside woman visible
Seen
{'item': 'wooden table', 'evidence': 'frame:1'} [frame:1], {'item': 'military uniforms with epaulets', 'evidence': 'frame:1, frame:3'} [frame:1, frame:3], {'item': 'lamp with fringed shade', 'evidence': 'frame:1, frame:2'} [frame:1, frame:2], {'item': 'chairs', 'evidence': 'frame:1'} [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: serious and formal; themes: military command, formal meeting, tension; style notes: static medium shots, warm sepia tone, theatrical lighting focused on table and standing figures

A group of men in military uniforms are seated around a table in a dimly lit room; a woman and a man in uniform stand nearby. Two officers in dark uniforms are shown in close-up, one with a hand on the table.

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 26:16 (passage 26:13–26:23); US record: Copyright term expired

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