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BattleshipPotemkin · Beat 200 · permalink

Ship

27:40–28:01 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; 1 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 27:4427:44Frame at 27:4927:49Frame at 27:5427:54Frame at 28:0028:00

Play from 27:40 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 152 · shots 425–428. 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
  • sailor in uniform, handling ropes visible
  • older man with thick beard, wearing dark clothing visible
  • foot in a heavy boot stepping on ladder visible
Seen happening
  • Sailor pulls on thick rope [frame:1]
  • Close-up of bearded man's face [frame:3]
  • Boot steps on metal ladder [frame:4]
Seen
thick rope [frame:1], metal ladder [frame:4], sailor's uniform [frame:2], heavy boot [frame:4]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense, focused; themes: labor, authority, shipboard life; style notes: close-ups, high contrast lighting, static framing

A sailor is shown handling thick ropes on a ship, followed by a close-up of an older man with a beard, and a boot stepping on a metal ladder. No dialogue or on-screen text is present in these frames.

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 27:44 (passage 27:40–28:01)

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