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BattleshipPotemkin · Beat 203 · permalink

Ship

28:26–28:35 Released 1925

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 1 name checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 2 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 28:2728:27Frame at 28:3228:32

Play from 28:26 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 154 · shots 437–438. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
ship (ship, exterior) evidence: frame:2
People
  • sailors in uniform, visible in large group on deck visible
Seen happening
  • A pair of spectacles hangs from a rope against a wall. [frame:1]
  • Sailors are gathered on the deck of a ship near two large cannons. [frame:2]
Seen
spectacles [frame:1], rope [frame:1], ship deck [frame:2], cannons [frame:2], sailors' uniforms [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and symbolic; themes: revolution, military discipline, symbolic objects; style notes: high-angle shot, stark black-and-white contrast, static framing emphasizing scale and order

A pair of spectacles hangs from a rope against a textured wall, followed by a high-angle shot of sailors gathered on a ship's deck near two large cannons. 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 28:27 (passage 28:26–28:35)

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