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BattleshipPotemkin · Beat 238 · permalink

Stone steps and bridge

36:08–36:25 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 36:1036:10Frame at 36:1936:19

Play from 36:08 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 174 · shots 499–500. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
stone steps and bridge (street, exterior) evidence: frame:1, frame:2
People
  • crowd of men and women in early 20th-century civilian clothing, some wearing hats visible
Seen happening
  • crowd walks up stone steps [frame:1]
  • people stand on a bridge over water [frame:2]
Seen
stone steps, bridge, water, trees, buildings
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and collective; themes: crowd movement, urban space, public gathering; style notes: static wide shots, high-contrast black-and-white, symmetrical framing of crowds, use of natural light and shadows

A crowd ascends stone steps beside a sloped embankment; in a separate shot, people are seen on a bridge over water with trees and buildings in the background. 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 36:10 (passage 36:08–36:25)

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