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BattleshipPotemkin · Beat 251 · permalink

Sidewalk

38:59–39:03 Released 1925

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 4 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 39:0139:01

Play from 38:59 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 182 · shots 525–525. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
sidewalk (sidewalk, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • person with covered head, wearing striped garment, bent over visible
  • person with covered head, bent over, right side of frame visible
  • person standing behind p1, dark clothing visible
  • person standing in background, dark clothing visible
Seen
{'item': 'covered heads (hoods or shawls)', 'frame': 1}, {'item': 'striped garment', 'frame': 1}, {'item': 'body of water in background', 'frame': 1}
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: somber; themes: grief, public gathering, suffering; style notes: static medium shot, high contrast lighting, grainy texture typical of 1920s film

A group of people, some with covered heads, are gathered outdoors near water. One person is bent over, appearing to examine or hold something in their hands.

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 39:01 (passage 38:59–39:03)

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