Mise en scene in The General According to Carrigan and White mise en scene means a “placement in a scene” or “onstage” (Carrigan and White, pg. 64). To put it into simpler terms it’s everything that you can visually see in the film. In the movie The General it is set in Marietta, Georgia during the American civil war. The film opens up with a happy and diddly tune as it stars an engineer named Johnnie Gray who’s only two loves in his life are his train which is named the General and his love interest named Annabelle. The General and Annabelle are stolen away by the North and he must go and claim what is rightfully his. The scenery, clothing, and music in this movie plays a very heavy role on the mood and content of the movie. These all fall under the mise en scene of the movie, which makes up most of the film. Music plays a very big role in this film compared to others as it is a silent film. And the only way we can be informed of about the plot is the few words given on the screen and the casts facial expressions. Yet music is just as big as those two as it takes us into the mood, feelings and thoughts of Johnnie Gray. In the beginning of the film Johnnie is a satisfied man as the film open up with happy sounds. His facial expression match this, as he is doing what he loves which is being an engineer running the general. But later on in the film, Annabelle scorned Johnnie for not being enlisted into to the army to fight the war, even though the Confederates needed him as an engineer. Johnnie thus falls into a deep depression as you can tell by his facial expression and body language. But what really gives it away is the music as it plays softly at a low depressing sound played by a trumpet. Another example would be as the North were taking Annabelle and the General away they was a dark erratic sound playing whenever they were in scene. And when Johnnie was going after them, a very high diddly inspiring hero saving the day kind of music would come on. These are all examples of how music was mise en scene in The General as it set the scene and the plot. The scenery was a big mise en scene as most of the movie was usually on a train. If Johnnie Gray was either chasing after the North or running away from them. So most of the movie is played on a train. A dry plain with a real railroad is shown, supporting the stereotypical southern United States scene. The actual town of Marietta looks like a regular town and the architecture is probably more similar to the 1926 Marietta, GA instead of the one during the civil war. But audiences of today wouldn’t be able to tell the difference. The clothing in The General played a huge role as the North and Confederates had two distinct clothing differences. The North was wearing darker colored clothing representing that they were evil. While the Confederates were wearing grayish lighter colored clothing representing that were the good side. Yet Annabelle was wearing white colored clothing something that was completely unseen by any of the characters.