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BattleshipPotemkin · Beat 201 · permalink

Ship

28:01–28:20 Released 1925

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 4 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 28:0228:02Frame at 28:0728:07Frame at 28:1628:16Frame at 28:1928:19

Play from 28:01 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 152 · shots 429–435. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
ship (ship) evidence: frame:2, frame:4
People
  • sailor in uniform, visible from waist down in frame:1 visible
  • group of sailors in uniform, standing near cannons in frame:2 visible
  • sailor climbing mast, silhouetted against sky in frame:3 visible
  • two sailors in uniform, one holding a rifle, in dim interior in frame:4 visible
Seen happening
  • A sailor's legs and boots are visible, standing on a surface. [frame:1]
  • Sailors stand near large ship cannons. [frame:2]
  • A sailor climbs a mast against the sky. [frame:3]
  • Two sailors stand in a dimly lit interior space with equipment. [frame:4]
Seen
cannon [frame:2], mast [frame:3], rifle [frame:4], sailor uniform [frame:1, frame:2, frame:3, frame:4]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and active; themes: naval discipline, physical labor, military setting; style notes: high-contrast black and white, dynamic angles (low angle on cannons, silhouette on mast), use of shadow in interior

A sequence on a ship shows sailors near large cannons, one man climbing a mast, and others in a dimly lit interior space. 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 28:02 (passage 28:01–28:20)

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