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BattleshipPotemkin · Beat 307 · permalink

Stone stairs

48:38–48:39 Released 1925

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

Frame at 48:3948:39

Play from 48:38 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 225 · shots 668–668. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
stone stairs (other, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • dark clothing, crouching or kneeling on steps visible
  • light-colored long dress, standing visible
  • light-colored clothing, standing, partially visible visible
Seen happening
  • A person in dark clothing is crouched on stone steps while others stand nearby. [frame:1]
Seen
stone steps [frame:1], dark clothing [frame:1], light-colored dress [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: conflict, power dynamics; style notes: low-angle shot, high-contrast lighting, static framing

A low-angle shot shows figures on wide stone steps; one person in dark clothing kneels or crouches while others stand nearby. No dialogue or on-screen text is present in this beat.

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 48:39 (passage 48:38–48:39)

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