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BattleshipPotemkin · Beat 212 · permalink

Ship

29:13–29:32 Released 1925

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 2 quotes checked against the transcript; 2 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 29:1429:14Frame at 29:1729:17Frame at 29:2729:27Frame at 29:3129:31

Play from 29:13 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 160 · shots 451–458. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
ship (ship, exterior) evidence: frame:3, frame:4
People
  • man in dark uniform with peaked cap, holding a pistol visible
  • person in heavy coat, hanging from a rope visible
Seen happening
  • A man in uniform holds a pistol to his mouth. [frame:1]
  • A close-up shows the man's eye. [frame:2]
  • A rope noose hangs from a structure. [frame:3]
  • A person in heavy clothing hangs from the noose. [frame:4]
Seen
pistol, rope noose, hanging person
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and grim; themes: despair, punishment, military discipline; style notes: extreme close-ups, high contrast lighting, static framing

A man in uniform holds a pistol to his mouth; a close-up shows his eye; a rope noose hangs from a structure; a person in heavy clothing hangs from the noose. Two lines of dialogue state "I'm sorry."

“I'm sorry.” 29:27 · “I'm sorry.” 29:29 automatic transcript, may be wrong

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 29:14 (passage 29:13–29:32)

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