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BattleshipPotemkin · Beat 331 · permalink

Street

53:24–53:44 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; 0 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 53:2453:24Frame at 53:2853:28Frame at 53:3953:39Frame at 53:4453:44

Play from 53:24 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 236 · shots 762–769. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
street (street, exterior) evidence: frame:4
People
  • soldiers in uniform, holding rifles visible
  • woman with dark hair, wearing a dark shawl or veil, face marked with what appears to be tears or paint visible
  • person in light clothing, partially visible behind cart visible
Seen happening
  • Soldiers hold rifles in formation. [frame:1]
  • Close-up of a woman's face showing distress. [frame:3]
  • Woman stands near a cart with a cityscape in the background. [frame:4]
Seen
rifles [frame:1], cart [frame:4], trees [frame:1], cityscape [frame:4]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and somber; themes: military presence, civilian distress, urban setting; style notes: high-contrast black-and-white, dramatic close-ups, static framing, use of silhouettes and deep focus

A sequence shows soldiers holding rifles in formation, followed by a close-up of a woman's face and then a wider shot of her standing near a cart with a cityscape behind her. No dialogue or on-screen text is present in the 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 53:24 (passage 53:24–53:44)

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