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The General · Beat 99 · permalink

Private office

26:34–26:53 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). 1 quote checked against the transcript; 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 26:3526:35Frame at 26:4226:42Frame at 26:4526:45Frame at 26:5026:50

Play from 26:34 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 36 · shots 244–249. 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, wearing dark military uniform with epaulets and buttons visible, audible
  • man with beard, wearing dark military uniform with epaulets visible
  • woman with dark hair and light skin, visible only as a face in a cutout visible
Seen happening
  • Two men in military uniforms sit at a table. [frame:1]
  • A map is shown with a circular cutout revealing a woman's face. [frame:2]
  • The woman's face is centered in the cutout on the map. [frame:3]
  • One man gestures with his finger while speaking. [frame:4]
Seen
military uniform [frame:1], map [frame:2], cutout [frame:2], table [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: serious; themes: military command, strategic planning, symbolic representation; style notes: static medium shots, dim studio lighting, sepia tone, formal framing

Two men in military uniforms are seated at a table; one speaks and gestures. A map is shown with a cutout revealing a woman's face. The transcript contains the word 'Amen.'

“Amen.” 26:50 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 26:35 (passage 26:34–26:53); US record: Copyright term expired

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