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BattleshipPotemkin · Beat 328 · permalink

Street

52:39–52:56 Released 1925

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 4 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 52:4152:41Frame at 52:4752:47Frame at 52:4852:48Frame at 52:5452:54

Play from 52:39 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 236 · shots 751–756. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
street (street, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in uniform with white hat, holding a rifle visible
  • man in uniform with white hat, holding a rifle visible
  • man in uniform with white hat, holding a rifle visible
  • man in dark uniform, falling to the ground visible
Seen happening
  • men in uniform fire rifles [frame:2]
  • a man falls to the ground [frame:3]
  • a man lies motionless on the ground [frame:4]
Seen
rifle [frame:1], uniform [frame:2], white hat [frame:2], paved ground [frame:3]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and violent; themes: conflict, authority, fallen individual; style notes: high-contrast black and white, dramatic shadows, static camera angles emphasizing action

A group of uniformed men fire rifles in unison while another man falls to the ground. The sequence ends with the fallen man lying still on a paved surface.

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 52:41 (passage 52:39–52:56)

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