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BattleshipPotemkin · Beat 29 · permalink

Ship

5:04–5:25 Released 1925

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 1 quote checked against the transcript; 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 5:065:06Frame at 5:115:11Frame at 5:165:16Frame at 5:245:24

Play from 5:04 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 21 · shots 38–44. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
ship (ship, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • sailors in white caps and uniforms, some with beards, gathered on deck visible
  • officer in dark uniform and cap, standing on a raised platform visible
  • Smirnov (named at frame:4): man in dark uniform and cap, holding a small object, possibly a bottle or container visible
Seen happening
  • Sailors are gathered closely on deck, looking toward a central point. [frame:1]
  • An officer stands on a raised platform addressing sailors. [frame:2]
  • A man in uniform holds a small object toward a sailor. [frame:3]
  • A title card identifies the ship's doctor as Smirnov. [frame:4]
Seen
sailor uniforms and white caps [frame:1], metal railing and platform [frame:2], small bottle or container [frame:3], title card with Cyrillic and English text [frame:4]
On screen
{'value': "Судовой врач Смирнов\nShip's doctor Smirnov.", 'evidence': 'frame:4'}
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and formal; themes: military hierarchy, medical authority, collective attention; style notes: static medium shots, high-contrast lighting, staged composition emphasizing authority and crowd

A group of sailors gathers on a ship's deck as an officer interacts with them; a title card identifies the ship's doctor as Smirnov. No named individuals are spoken about in the transcript beyond the doctor's title and surname.

“I'm going to go.” 5:10 automatic transcript, may be wrong

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 5:06 (passage 5:04–5:25)

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