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BattleshipPotemkin · Beat 346 · permalink

Ship

55:43–55:53 Released 1925

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 1 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 55:4455:44Frame at 55:4655:46Frame at 55:5155:51Frame at 55:5255:52

Play from 55:43 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 246 · shots 822–829. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
ship (ship, exterior) evidence: frame:1
Seen happening
  • Smoke billows from a ship's structure. [frame:1]
  • A stone cherub statue is shown atop a structure. [frame:2]
  • A close-up of a stone lion statue with a resting pose. [frame:3]
  • A close-up of a stone lion statue with an open-mouthed expression. [frame:4]
Seen
ship structure with smoke, stone cherub statue, stone lion statue (resting), stone lion statue (roaring)
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: solemn and monumental; themes: monumentality, symbolism, transition from machinery to art; style notes: static close-ups, high-contrast lighting, emphasis on sculptural forms

The sequence shows a ship emitting smoke, followed by close-ups of sculpted figures: a cherub and two lion statues. No people are visible or audible, and no dialogue is present.

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 55:44 (passage 55:43–55:53)

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