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Beat 98

26:23–26:34 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). 0 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 26:2826:28

Play from 26:23 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 35 · shots 243–243. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Seen happening
  • A title card explains that a girl was in the baggage car during a train theft and was held. [frame:1]
On screen
This girl was in the baggage car when we stole the train, so I thought it best to hold her.
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: expository; themes: narrative exposition, silent film convention; style notes: static title card with centered text, typical of silent film intertitles

A title card states that a girl was in the baggage car during a train theft and was held. No people or locations are visible in the frame.

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 26:28 (passage 26:23–26:34); US record: Copyright term expired

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