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BattleshipPotemkin · Beat 115 · permalink

Ship

15:20–15:28 Released 1925

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; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 15:2115:21Frame at 15:2515:25Frame at 15:2715:27

Play from 15:20 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 89 · shots 190–192. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
ship (ship, exterior) evidence: frame:2
People
  • older man, mustache, naval officer's uniform with cap and epaulets visible
  • group of sailors in uniform, standing in formation visible
Seen happening
  • A naval officer is shown in a close-up, looking stern. [frame:1]
  • A wide shot shows sailors lined up on the deck of a ship. [frame:2]
  • The shot returns to the close-up of the naval officer. [frame:3]
Seen
naval officer's uniform [frame:1], ship's deck with cannons [frame:2], sailors' uniforms [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: authority, military discipline; style notes: static close-ups and a wide, symmetrical shot; high-contrast black and white; formal composition

A naval officer is shown in close-up, followed by a wide shot of sailors lined up on a ship's deck, then a return to the officer. The transcript contains a single exclamation.

“Ooh.” 15:23 automatic transcript, may be wrong

The record

A Soviet work restored in the US in 1996 under the Uruguay Round Agreements Act for a term that ran to 1 January 2021. Public domain now; it was not between 1996 and 2020. The registry does not yet model restoration. 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 BattleshipPotemkin (1925) at 15:21 (passage 15:20–15:28)

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