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BattleshipPotemkin · Beat 223 · permalink

Harbor

32:13–32:45 Released 1925

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

Frame at 32:2832:28Frame at 32:4432:44

Play from 32:13 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 165 · shots 479–480. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
harbor (other, exterior) evidence: frame:1, frame:2
Time of day
dusk or dawn evidence: frame:2
Seen happening
  • A bright light reflects on water as seen from inside a dark structure. [frame:1]
  • A wide view of a harbor with industrial silhouettes against a dim sky. [frame:2]
Seen
bright light on water, industrial structures on horizon, water surface
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: somber, tense; themes: isolation, industrial landscape, unresolved tension; style notes: high-contrast black-and-white, silhouetted framing, wide static shot, use of natural light to create dramatic reflection

A dark, silhouetted view from a ship’s interior shows a bright light on water, followed by a wide shot of a harbor at dusk or dawn with industrial structures on the horizon. No people are visible, and no named individuals are mentioned in the transcript.

“I'm sorry.” 32:37 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 32:28 (passage 32:13–32:45)

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