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BattleshipPotemkin · Beat 176 · permalink

Ship

23:10–23:15 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 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 23:1123:11Frame at 23:1223:12Frame at 23:1323:13Frame at 23:1423:14

Play from 23:10 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 141 · shots 317–320. 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
  • man with mustache, wearing a dark naval officer's cap and uniform visible
  • man with mustache, wearing a sailor's cap and striped shirt visible
Seen happening
  • A title card displays the Russian word for 'Fire!' and its English translation. [frame:2]
  • A title card displays the Russian word for 'Brothers!' and its English translation. [frame:4]
Seen
naval officer's cap [frame:1], sailor's cap [frame:3], striped shirt [frame:3]
On screen
[{'text': '-ПЛИ!', 'evidence': 'frame:2', 'translation': '- Fire! -'}, {'text': '-БРАТЬЯ!', 'evidence': 'frame:4', 'translation': 'Brothers!'}]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and urgent; themes: military command, call to action, fraternal appeal; style notes: close-up shots, high-contrast black and white, intertitles used for dialogue

A man in a naval officer's cap is shown in close-up, followed by a title card with the Russian word for 'Fire!' and its English translation. Another man in a sailor's cap appears, also with the word 'Fire!' on screen. A final title card displays the Russian word for 'Brothers!' with its English translation.

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 23:11 (passage 23:10–23:15)

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