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BattleshipPotemkin · Beat 312 · permalink

Steps

49:06–49:13 Released 1925

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 2 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 49:0749:07Frame at 49:0949:09Frame at 49:1049:10Frame at 49:1249:12

Play from 49:06 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 229 · shots 677–680. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
steps (other, exterior) evidence: frame:1, frame:4
People
  • person lying on steps, wearing light-colored trousers and dark shoes visible
  • person standing, wearing overalls and a light shirt, holding a dark object visible
Seen happening
  • A person's legs and feet are visible lying on stone steps. [frame:1]
  • A dark, indistinct shape moves rapidly across the frame. [frame:2]
  • A person is curled on the steps, wearing a heavy coat. [frame:3]
  • A person in overalls stands on steps above a body lying on the ground. [frame:4]
Seen
stone steps [frame:1, frame:4], dark shoes [frame:1], overalls [frame:4], dark object held by person [frame:4]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense, somber; themes: death, authority, public space; style notes: high-contrast lighting, static camera, low-angle shots emphasizing the steps, use of shadow and silhouette

A person lies motionless on wide stone steps; another figure in overalls stands above them holding a dark object. The scene is shot in high-contrast black and white with strong shadows.

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 49:07 (passage 49:06–49:13)

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