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BattleshipPotemkin · Beat 333 · permalink

Town square

54:00–54:19 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; 1 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 54:0354:03Frame at 54:0754:07Frame at 54:1354:13Frame at 54:1654:16

Play from 54:00 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 236 · shots 779–783. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
town_square (town square, exterior) evidence: frame:2
People
  • hands holding a decorative object, wearing dark clothing visible
  • mounted soldiers in uniform, civilians on steps visible
  • hands manipulating a small object, wearing dark clothing visible
  • woman with dark hair and open mouth, face showing distress visible
Seen happening
  • Hands hold a decorative object. [frame:1]
  • Mounted soldiers and civilians are on steps. [frame:2]
  • Hands manipulate a small object. [frame:3]
  • A woman's face is shown with an open mouth. [frame:4]
Seen
decorative object [frame:1], horses [frame:2], steps [frame:2], small object [frame:3]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and dramatic; themes: conflict, distress, public spectacle; style notes: high-contrast black-and-white, close-ups for emotional impact, wide shot for scale and action

A close-up shows hands holding a decorative object. A wide shot depicts mounted soldiers on steps with civilians nearby. Another close-up shows hands manipulating a small object. A final close-up shows a woman's face with an open mouth.

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 54:03 (passage 54:00–54:19)

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