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BattleshipPotemkin · Beat 180 · permalink

Ship

23:22–23:38 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; 2 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 23:2323:23Frame at 23:2923:29Frame at 23:3223:32Frame at 23:3723:37

Play from 23:22 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 145 · shots 324–332. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
ship (ship, exterior) evidence: frame:3
People
  • sailor in uniform with white cap, holding rifle visible
  • sailor in uniform with white cap, face shown in close-up, appears tense visible
  • officer in uniform with dark cap and mustache, face shown in close-up visible
Seen happening
  • Sailors in uniform aim rifles in formation on a ship's deck. [frame:1]
  • Close-up of a sailor's face showing tension. [frame:2]
  • Wide shot of a ship's deck showing cannons and crew members. [frame:3]
  • Close-up of an officer's face with a mustache. [frame:4]
Seen
rifle [frame:1], sailor's uniform and cap [frame:1], ship's deck [frame:3], cannon [frame:3], officer's uniform and cap [frame:4]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and confrontational; themes: military discipline, conflict, authority vs. crew; style notes: static close-ups and wide shots emphasize scale and emotion; high-contrast black-and-white lighting

A group of sailors in uniform are shown aiming rifles on a ship's deck, followed by a close-up of a sailor's face, a wide shot of the ship's deck with cannons and crew, and a close-up of an officer's face. 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 23:23 (passage 23:22–23:38)

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