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BattleshipPotemkin · Beat 324 · permalink

Stone staircase

51:49–52:06 Released 1925

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Frame at 51:5051:50Frame at 51:5451:54Frame at 51:5751:57Frame at 52:0452:04

Play from 51:49 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 232 · shots 740–745. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
stone_staircase (other, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • soldiers in uniform and helmets, holding rifles visible
  • man with dark hair and beard, carrying a child visible
  • child, pale, wrapped in white cloth, appears lifeless visible
  • woman with dark hair, wearing shawl, distressed expression visible
  • crowd members, including a bald man and others in coats visible
Seen happening
  • Soldiers fire rifles in unison on a staircase. [frame:1]
  • A man carries a child's body up the stairs. [frame:2]
  • A woman in the crowd reacts with anguish. [frame:3]
  • Soldiers march in formation down the stairs. [frame:4]
Seen
rifles [frame:1], stone staircase [frame:1], child's body wrapped in cloth [frame:2], military uniforms and helmets [frame:4]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and tragic; themes: violence, grief, authority vs. civilians; style notes: high-contrast lighting, dramatic shadows, static camera emphasizing scale and movement

Soldiers fire rifles on a wide stone staircase while a man carries a child's body. A crowd reacts with distress as soldiers march in formation.

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 51:50 (passage 51:49–52:06)

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