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BattleshipPotemkin · Beat 218 · permalink

Sea

31:05–31:22 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; 3 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 31:0731:07Frame at 31:1331:13Frame at 31:1931:19

Play from 31:05 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 162 · shots 468–470. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
sea (other, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • men in light-colored uniforms and caps, visible on a small boat visible
Seen happening
  • A distant lighthouse or tower is visible on the horizon over the sea. [frame:1]
  • A large ship with smoke rising from its stack sails across the water with crew visible on deck. [frame:2]
  • A small boat with several men in uniform moves through the water, trailing smoke or steam. [frame:3]
Seen
ship [frame:2], small boat [frame:3], smoke/steam [frame:2, frame:3], lighthouse or tower [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and active; themes: naval movement, open sea, industrial power; style notes: high-contrast black-and-white, wide shots emphasizing scale and movement, dramatic use of smoke and water

A ship sails on the sea with smoke rising from its stack, followed by a smaller boat carrying several men. The scene is set on open water with a distant structure visible on the horizon.

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 31:07 (passage 31:05–31:22)

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