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BattleshipPotemkin · Beat 169 · permalink

Ship

21:50–22:08 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; 1 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 21:5121:51Frame at 21:5821:58Frame at 22:0622:06

Play from 21:50 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 137 · shots 291–293. 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
  • sailor in uniform, standing on deck visible
  • figures under a large tarp, indistinct visible
Seen happening
  • The bow of a warship with two large cannons is shown. [frame:1]
  • A sailor stands on the deck near rigging. [frame:2]
  • Figures are covered by a large tarp on the deck. [frame:3]
Seen
cannons, ship's bow, rigging, tarp
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: solemn, tense; themes: military power, concealment, authority; style notes: static low-angle shot of the ship, high-contrast lighting, stark composition

A warship's bow with cannons is shown, followed by a sailor on deck, then figures covered by a tarp on the deck. No dialogue or on-screen text is present in these frames.

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 21:51 (passage 21:50–22:08)

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