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BattleshipPotemkin · Beat 247 · permalink

Stone staircase under a bridge

37:59–38:15 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 38:0238:02Frame at 38:0738:07Frame at 38:1238:12

Play from 37:59 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 179 · shots 515–517. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
stone staircase under a bridge (street, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • large crowd of men and women in early 20th-century clothing visible
Seen happening
  • A crowd gathers on a stone staircase under a bridge. [frame:1]
  • The crowd is seen from under the bridge arch, with a distant building visible. [frame:2]
  • A high-angle shot shows a dense crowd, some carrying a flag. [frame:3]
Seen
stone staircase, bridge arch, flag
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and monumental; themes: collective action, public space as site of conflict; style notes: high-contrast lighting, dynamic camera angles (low and high), large-scale crowd composition

A large crowd is shown on and around a stone staircase under a bridge, with some people carrying a flag. The scene is shot from multiple angles, including a high-angle view showing the density of the crowd.

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 38:02 (passage 37:59–38:15)

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