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BattleshipPotemkin · Beat 145 · permalink

Ship

17:32–17:46 Released 1925

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 2 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 17:3317:33Frame at 17:3717:37Frame at 17:4317:43Frame at 17:4517:45

Play from 17:32 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 118 · shots 229–233. 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
  • sailor, wearing a white cap and uniform with stripes, seen in profile visible
  • sailor, wearing a white cap, seen from behind and side visible
Seen happening
  • A title card appears with the text '- К башне ...' and 'To the turret!' [frame:1]
  • A sailor in uniform is shown in close-up, looking upward and to the side [frame:2]
  • A group of sailors in uniform are shown, one looking to the side [frame:3]
  • The title card '- К башне ...' and 'To the turret!' reappears [frame:4]
Seen
sailor's uniform [frame:2], sailor's cap [frame:2]
On screen
{'value': '- К башне ... To the turret!', 'evidence': 'frame:1'}
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: urgent; themes: military command, collective action; style notes: close-up shots, high-contrast lighting, intertitles used for command

A title card reads 'To the turret!' in Russian and English. Sailors in uniform are shown in close-up, looking upward and to the side, suggesting they are responding to the command.

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 17:33 (passage 17:32–17:46)

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