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BattleshipPotemkin · Beat 2 · permalink

Water

0:04–0:41 Released 1925

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 0:220:22

Play from 0:04 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: on-screen text appears or ends. Sequence 2 · shots 1–1. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
water (other, exterior) evidence: frame:1
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: ominous; style notes: low-key lighting, high contrast, grainy texture, wide shot

A dark, grainy frame shows a large plume of smoke or steam rising from water at night or in low light. No people, objects, or text are clearly visible, and no events are described in the transcript.

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 0:22 (passage 0:04–0:41)

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