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BattleshipPotemkin · Beat 193 · permalink

Ship

25:38–25:57 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 25:3925:39Frame at 25:4525:45Frame at 25:5125:51Frame at 25:5725:57

Play from 25:38 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 152 · shots 383–395. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
ship (ship, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • sailor in uniform, wearing a white cap, medium build visible
  • figure in dark clothing, partially obscured, appears to be resisting visible
Seen happening
  • A sailor grapples with another figure in a confined space. [frame:1]
  • The struggle continues with the sailor gaining a dominant position over the other figure. [frame:2]
  • The sailor is seen holding a weapon, possibly a club or baton, while confronting the other figure. [frame:3]
  • The sailor swings the weapon at the other figure in a violent motion. [frame:4]
Seen
sailor's uniform [frame:1], white sailor's cap [frame:1], weapon (club or baton) [frame:3]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and violent; themes: conflict, power struggle, revolution; style notes: high-contrast black and white, tight framing emphasizing physical struggle, dramatic lighting

A sailor in uniform is shown in close physical struggle with another figure in a confined interior space. The struggle involves grappling and the use of a weapon, with the sailor appearing to overpower the other person.

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 25:39 (passage 25:38–25:57)

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