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BattleshipPotemkin · Beat 162 · permalink

Ship

20:13–20:22 Released 1925

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 0 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 20:1520:15Frame at 20:1920:19

Play from 20:13 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 134 · shots 269–270. 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
Seen happening
  • A title card displays Russian text and its English translation. [frame:1]
  • A group of uniformed figures is visible in a dark, crowded setting. [frame:2]
Seen
title card, uniforms
On screen
{'frame': 1, 'value': '- Есть брезент!\nAye-aye, sir!'}
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and urgent; themes: military command, obedience, collective action; style notes: high-contrast black-and-white, static framing, use of intertitles for dialogue

Two frames show a dark, crowded scene with uniformed figures, followed by a title card with Russian text and its English translation. No dialogue or named characters are present in the supplied materials.

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 20:15 (passage 20:13–20:22)

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