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BattleshipPotemkin · Beat 32 · permalink

Ship

5:34–5:49 Released 1925

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

Frame at 5:345:34Frame at 5:375:37Frame at 5:425:42Frame at 5:475:47

Play from 5:34 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 23 · shots 48–51. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
ship (ship, exterior) evidence: frame:2
People
  • sailor in striped shirt and cap, mustache, intense expression visible
  • sailor in white uniform and cap, holding rotten meat visible
  • officer in dark uniform and cap, looking at meat visible
  • sailor in cap, partially visible behind p1 visible
Seen happening
  • A sailor with a mustache stares intensely at the camera. [frame:1]
  • Sailors and an officer gather around a large, rotten piece of meat held by one sailor. [frame:2]
  • A close-up of a metal plate with a small, dark object on it. [frame:3]
  • An officer and sailors examine the rotten meat closely. [frame:4]
Seen
rotten meat, sailor uniforms, metal plate
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and disgusted; themes: disgust, authority, suffering; style notes: high-contrast black and white, close-ups on faces and objects, dramatic lighting

Sailors examine a large, rotten piece of meat on a ship deck. One sailor holds the meat while others, including an officer, look on with expressions of disgust.

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 5:34 (passage 5:34–5:49)

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