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BattleshipPotemkin · Beat 325 · permalink

Steps

52:06–52:16 Released 1925

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

Frame at 52:0952:09Frame at 52:1452:14

Play from 52:06 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 233 · shots 746–747. 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
People
  • woman seen from behind, dark dress, dark hair visible
  • multiple bodies lying on steps, some in light clothing visible
Seen happening
  • A woman stands on steps among fallen bodies. [frame:1]
  • A title card appears with the text '-Слышите! Не стреляйте!' and 'Don't shoot!'. [frame:2]
Seen
title card [frame:2], bodies [frame:1]
On screen
{'value': "-Слышите! Не стреляйте!\nDon't shoot!", 'evidence': 'frame:2'}
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: urgent, tragic; themes: massacre, plea for mercy, public spectacle of violence; style notes: high-contrast black and white, wide shot emphasizing scale of carnage, intertitle used for direct appeal

A woman stands on steps among fallen bodies as a title card pleads 'Don't shoot!'. No dialogue or named characters are 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 52:09 (passage 52:06–52:16)

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