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BattleshipPotemkin · Beat 17 · permalink

Ship

3:50–3:57 Released 1925

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 1 name checked for a spoken or on-screen source; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 3:533:53

Play from 3:50 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 14 · shots 21–21. 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
  • sailors in dark uniforms and white hats, varying builds, mostly young adult males visible
Seen
ship deck [frame:1], railing [frame:1], ropes [frame:1], sailor uniforms [frame:1], white hats [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and orderly; themes: military discipline, collective action; style notes: static medium shot, high-contrast monochrome, crowded composition emphasizing group over individual

A group of sailors in uniform stands on the deck of a ship, some near a railing and others moving along the deck. The scene is shot in black and white with high-contrast lighting, showing a crowded, structured environment.

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 3:53 (passage 3:50–3:57)

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