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BattleshipPotemkin · Beat 191 · permalink

Ship

24:57–25:18 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 25:0125:01Frame at 25:0625:06Frame at 25:1225:12Frame at 25:1725:17

Play from 24:57 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 152 · shots 370–374. 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, frame:3, frame:4
People
  • sailor in uniform, visible from waist up, holding a tool or pipe visible
  • sailor in white cap and uniform, standing near railing, gesturing with arm visible
  • sailor in white cap, partially visible, standing near p2 visible
Seen happening
  • A sailor handles a pipe or tool near a wooden bulkhead. [frame:1]
  • Sailors are seen in motion, one holding a long object, possibly a rifle or tool. [frame:2]
  • A sailor in a white cap gestures with his arm while standing on deck near a large gun. [frame:3]
  • A large naval gun is visible behind a railing, with a sailor partially visible behind it. [frame:4]
Seen
naval gun [frame:3, frame:4], ship railing [frame:3, frame:4], sailor uniform [frame:2, frame:3], wooden bulkhead [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and active; themes: naval discipline, mechanical labor, military hierarchy; style notes: high-contrast black-and-white, close framing on action, dynamic composition

Four frames show close-ups and medium shots of sailors on a ship's deck, handling equipment and moving near large naval guns. No dialogue or on-screen text is present, and the setting is clearly a warship's exterior.

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 25:01 (passage 24:57–25:18)

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