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BattleshipPotemkin · Beat 258 · permalink

Ship

40:22–40:35 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 40:2340:23Frame at 40:2540:25Frame at 40:3140:31Frame at 40:3440:34

Play from 40:22 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 187 · shots 535–539. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
ship (ship, exterior) evidence: frame:4
People
  • hands with a ring, clasped together visible
  • hooded figure, wearing a light-colored garment, covering face with hand visible
  • older woman with headscarf, weeping, holding a handkerchief to her face visible
  • man in profile, dark hair, wearing a dark jacket, looking toward the right visible
Seen
ring [frame:1], hooded garment [frame:2], handkerchief [frame:3], flag [frame:4]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: grief and solemnity; themes: mourning, collective emotion, suffering; style notes: close-up shots, high-contrast lighting, static camera, focused on emotional expression

A sequence of close-ups shows hands clasped, a hooded figure covering their face, an older woman weeping into a handkerchief, and a man in profile among a crowd. No dialogue or on-screen text is present in these frames.

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 40:23 (passage 40:22–40:35)

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