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BattleshipPotemkin · Beat 205 · permalink

Ship

28:40–28:47 Released 1925

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 1 name checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 28:4228:42Frame at 28:4528:45

Play from 28:40 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 156 · shots 440–441. 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
  • group of sailors in uniform with white hats, visible in a crowd on deck visible
Seen happening
  • A large group of sailors is gathered on a ship's deck. [frame:1]
  • A close-up shows a crumpled paper and a rifle on a surface. [frame:2]
Seen
sailor uniforms [frame:1], white hats [frame:1], crumpled paper [frame:2], rifle [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: military discipline, impending conflict; style notes: high-contrast black-and-white, static shots, close-up on symbolic objects

A large group of sailors in uniform is gathered on a ship's deck, followed by a close-up of a crumpled paper and a rifle. 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 28:42 (passage 28:40–28:47)

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