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BattleshipPotemkin · Beat 326 · permalink

Stone steps

52:16–52:35 Released 1925

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 52:1952:19Frame at 52:2852:28

Play from 52:16 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 234 · shots 748–749. 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
People
  • person lying on steps, wearing dark pants and light shirt, motionless visible
  • multiple figures walking past, wearing dark pants and light shirts, some carrying rifles visible
  • figure standing near bodies, wearing dark coat and light shirt visible
Seen happening
  • A person lies motionless on stone steps as others walk past. [frame:1]
  • Multiple bodies lie on stone steps; long shadows stretch across the scene. [frame:2]
Seen
stone_steps [frame:1], long_shadows [frame:2], rifle [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: somber; themes: violence, power, death; style notes: high-contrast lighting, static wide shots, dramatic shadows, black-and-white film stock

A person lies motionless on stone steps while others walk past; a second frame shows a wider view of the steps with multiple bodies and long shadows cast across them. No dialogue or on-screen text is present in these frames.

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 52:19 (passage 52:16–52:35)

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