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Beat 157

19:40–19:45 Released 1925

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 19:4219:42

Play from 19:40 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 129 · shots 259–259. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

On screen
{'text': '-Назад, мерзавцы! Этот ход не для вас!\nBack! The hatch is not for the likes of you.', 'evidence': 'frame:1'}
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: confrontational; themes: authority, exclusion, class conflict; style notes: static title card, high-contrast white text on black background, intertitle format typical of silent cinema

A black screen displays white text in Russian and English, commanding 'Back! The hatch is not for the likes of you.' No people, objects, or environments are visible in the frame.

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 19:42 (passage 19:40–19:45)

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