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BattleshipPotemkin · Beat 257 · permalink

Beat 257

40:03–40:22 Released 1925

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 3 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 40:0840:08Frame at 40:1740:17

Play from 40:03 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 187 · shots 533–534. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

People
  • Man with beard, wearing a hooded coat and a dark scarf; appears middle-aged, heavy-set visible
  • Man with mustache, wearing a cap and dark shirt; appears middle-aged, lean visible
  • Man with cap and light shirt; appears middle-aged, average build visible
Seen
hooded coat, cap, dark scarf
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and somber; themes: collective emotion, human suffering; style notes: close-up framing, high-contrast black-and-white lighting, static camera emphasizing facial expressions

Two close-up shots show men in heavy clothing with serious expressions, suggesting a tense or somber moment. No location, time, or named individuals are identifiable from the frames or transcript.

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 40:08 (passage 40:03–40:22)

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