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BattleshipPotemkin · Beat 315 · permalink

Stone steps

49:47–50:06 Released 1925

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Frame at 49:4849:48Frame at 49:5549:55Frame at 50:0250:02Frame at 50:0550:05

Play from 49:47 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 231 · shots 691–701. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
stone_steps (other, exterior) evidence: frame:1, frame:4
People
  • man lying on ground, bald head, wearing dark coat, glasses visible
  • crowd of men and women in early 20th-century clothing, running down steps visible
  • soldiers in uniform, holding rifles, standing on steps above visible
Seen happening
  • A crowd is seen on wide stone steps, some running, some standing. [frame:1]
  • A bald man in a dark coat lies motionless on the ground. [frame:2]
  • Soldiers fire rifles from above, producing smoke. [frame:3]
  • People run down the steps in panic, including a woman in a long dress and a man in white pants. [frame:4]
Seen
stone steps [frame:1, frame:4], rifles [frame:3], smoke [frame:3], trees [frame:1, frame:3]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: chaotic and violent; themes: revolution, violence, mass panic; style notes: high-contrast black and white, dynamic composition with diagonal lines of steps, use of smoke for dramatic effect

A crowd flees down wide stone steps as armed soldiers fire rifles from above. One man lies motionless on the ground near the steps.

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 49:48 (passage 49:47–50:06)

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