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BattleshipPotemkin · Beat 167 · permalink

Ship

21:19–21:32 Released 1925

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 3 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 21:2321:23Frame at 21:2821:28Frame at 21:3021:30Frame at 21:3121:31

Play from 21:19 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 135 · shots 286–289. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
ship (ship, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • person wearing light-colored trousers and dark jacket, walking visible
  • person wearing light-colored trousers and dark jacket, standing visible
  • group of people in dark uniforms with light trousers visible
Seen happening
  • A person walks across a wooden deck. [frame:1]
  • A title card displays the Russian word 'Смирно!' and its English translation 'Attention!'. [frame:3]
  • A group of uniformed figures is shown in close-up. [frame:4]
Seen
wooden deck [frame:1], uniforms [frame:4]
On screen
{'value': '- Смирно!\nAttention!', 'evidence': 'frame:3'}
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense, formal; themes: military order, discipline, collective action; style notes: static framing, high-contrast lighting, close-up on uniforms suggests authority or discipline

A person walks across a wooden deck while another stands nearby; a title card reads 'Смирно!' and 'Attention!'; a group of uniformed figures is shown in close-up. No spoken dialogue is present in this beat.

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 21:23 (passage 21:19–21:32)

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