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BattleshipPotemkin · Beat 246 · permalink

Pier

37:43–37:59 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 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 37:4737:47Frame at 37:5437:54Frame at 37:5837:58

Play from 37:43 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 179 · shots 512–514. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
pier (other, exterior) evidence: frame:1, frame:2, frame:3
People
  • crowd of men and women in early 20th-century clothing, mostly dark coats and hats visible
Seen happening
  • crowd moves along pier and staircase [frame:1]
  • crowd continues along curved pier, viewed from above [frame:2]
  • crowd on pier with boats visible to the right [frame:3]
Seen
stone pier, staircase, boats
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and collective; themes: mass movement, public space, urban infrastructure; style notes: high-angle shots emphasize scale and movement; stark black-and-white contrast; static camera framing

A large crowd is shown moving along a stone pier next to water, with some individuals visible on a staircase above. The scene is shot from multiple angles, including a high-angle view showing the length of the pier and boats moored nearby.

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 37:47 (passage 37:43–37:59)

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