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BattleshipPotemkin · Beat 243 · permalink

Town square

36:43–37:00 Released 1925

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 4 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 36:4836:48Frame at 36:5436:54Frame at 36:5736:57Frame at 37:0037:00

Play from 36:43 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 178 · shots 505–508. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
town_square (town square, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • child in white shirt and dark suspenders, short hair visible
  • adult male with beard, wearing dark coat, lying down visible
  • adult male with hat and dark coat, kneeling visible
  • crowd of adults in dark coats and hats, some with white shirts visible
Seen happening
  • A crowd surrounds a collection point with a basket and a sign. [frame:1]
  • A boy places an object into a basket. [frame:2]
  • A man lies with a sign on his chest reading 'СВОБОДА' and 'ОТРУША'. [frame:3]
  • A hand counts coins from a pouch. [frame:4]
Seen
basket [frame:2], sign with Cyrillic text [frame:3], pouch with coins [frame:4], crowd [frame:1]
On screen
СВОБОДА ОТРУША
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: solemn and communal; themes: collective action, sacrifice, protest; style notes: static medium and close shots, high contrast lighting, documentary-style framing

A crowd gathers around a makeshift collection point where a boy and an adult place items into a basket; a man lies with a sign on his chest, and coins are counted in a pouch. The scene is outdoors on a paved surface, likely during daylight, though no time of day is established.

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 36:48 (passage 36:43–37:00)

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