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BattleshipPotemkin · Beat 336 · permalink

Stone steps

54:41–54:55 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; 2 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 54:4254:42Frame at 54:4554:45Frame at 54:5254:52Frame at 54:5454:54

Play from 54:41 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 237 · shots 799–803. 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, frame:2, frame:3, frame:4
People
  • baby wrapped in light-colored cloth, visible in carriage visible
  • soldiers on horseback, wearing dark uniforms visible
  • bodies lying on steps, clothing indistinct visible
Seen happening
  • A baby is visible in a carriage on stone steps. [frame:1]
  • Bodies are seen lying on stone steps. [frame:2]
  • Soldiers on horseback are shown moving among crowds on steps. [frame:3]
  • A close-up shows the baby in the carriage next to a fallen body. [frame:4]
Seen
baby carriage [frame:1, frame:4], stone steps [frame:1, frame:2, frame:3, frame:4], horses [frame:3], bodies [frame:2, frame:4]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and tragic; themes: violence, innocence, massacre, contrast between life and death; style notes: high-contrast black-and-white, dynamic composition, use of diagonal lines in steps, close-up juxtaposition for emotional impact

A baby in a carriage is shown on stone steps, followed by scenes of soldiers on horseback and bodies lying on the steps. The sequence ends with a close-up of the baby and a fallen body nearby.

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 54:42 (passage 54:41–54:55)

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