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BattleshipPotemkin · Beat 269 · permalink

Stone steps under a bridge

42:18–42:22 Released 1925

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Frame at 42:2042:20

Play from 42:18 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 195 · shots 588–588. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
stone steps under a bridge (other, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • crowd of men and women in early 20th-century clothing, mostly dark coats and hats, some in lighter shirts or dresses visible
Seen
stone steps [frame:1], bridge structure overhead [frame:1], crowd of people [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and crowded; themes: crowd, public space, urban architecture; style notes: high-contrast black and white, static wide shot, strong diagonal shadows from bridge structure

A large crowd gathers on wide stone steps beneath a bridge structure. The scene is shot in black and white with strong shadows cast by the bridge.

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 42:20 (passage 42:18–42:22)

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