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BattleshipPotemkin · Beat 352 · permalink

Ship

56:09–56:27 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 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 56:1056:10Frame at 56:1456:14Frame at 56:1956:19Frame at 56:2556:25

Play from 56:09 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 250 · shots 835–838. 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
People
  • sailor in white uniform and cap, shouting with mouth open, visible in close-up visible
  • sailor in white uniform and cap, shouting with mouth open, visible in close-up visible
  • multiple sailors in dark uniforms, visible clustered on ship's mast and rigging visible
Seen happening
  • Multiple sailors are gathered on the mast and rigging of a ship. [frame:1]
  • A sailor in a white uniform shouts with an open mouth. [frame:2]
  • A title card in Russian announces that the population of Odessa awaits liberators and that troops will join them. [frame:3]
  • Another sailor in a white uniform shouts with an open mouth. [frame:4]
Seen
ship mast and rigging [frame:1], sailor uniforms and caps [frame:2, frame:4], title card with Russian text [frame:3]
On screen
-Население Одессы ждет освободителей! Высадите десант, и войска присоединятся к вам
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: urgent and agitated; themes: revolution, mobilization, collective action; style notes: high-contrast black-and-white, close-ups emphasize emotional intensity, static camera on title card

A group of sailors is shown gathered on a ship's mast and rigging, followed by close-ups of two sailors shouting. A title card in Russian announces that the population of Odessa awaits liberators and that troops will join them. No spoken dialogue is present in this beat.

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 56:10 (passage 56:09–56:27)

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