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BattleshipPotemkin · Beat 170 · permalink

Ship

22:08–22:26 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; 2 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 22:0922:09Frame at 22:1522:15Frame at 22:1922:19Frame at 22:2422:24

Play from 22:08 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 137 · shots 294–299. 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
People
  • bearded man with long hair, wearing dark robes, holding a cross visible
  • sailors in uniform with caps and striped shirts visible
Seen happening
  • A bearded man holds a cross in front of him. [frame:1]
  • Sailors stand in a line, holding rifles at their sides. [frame:2]
  • Sailors in uniform look downward with somber expressions. [frame:3]
  • Close-up of sailors’ faces, showing solemn expressions. [frame:4]
Seen
cross [frame:1], rifles [frame:2], sailor caps [frame:3], striped shirts [frame:3]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: solemn and tense; themes: authority, obedience, military discipline; style notes: high-contrast lighting, close-ups emphasize facial expressions, static framing

A bearded man holds a cross while sailors stand in formation; close-ups show their somber expressions. No dialogue or on-screen text is present in this sequence.

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 22:09 (passage 22:08–22:26)

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