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BattleshipPotemkin · Beat 36 · permalink

Ship

6:10–6:22 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; 2 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 6:126:12Frame at 6:146:14Frame at 6:166:16Frame at 6:206:20

Play from 6:10 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 27 · shots 55–58. 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
  • man with thick mustache, glasses, and officer's cap, wearing uniform with epaulets visible
  • sailor in striped shirt and sailor cap with text 'ПОТЕМКИН' visible
  • sailor in white uniform and cap, partially visible visible
  • officer in dark uniform and cap, visible in profile visible
Seen happening
  • An officer with glasses gestures with his hand near his face. [frame:1]
  • A group of sailors and officers stand close together, some looking toward the camera. [frame:2]
  • A sailor in a striped shirt and cap looks forward, with another sailor behind him. [frame:3]
  • The same sailor from frame 3 turns his head slightly to the side. [frame:4]
Seen
officer's cap with epaulets [frame:1], sailor cap with text 'ПОТЕМКИН' [frame:3], striped sailor shirt [frame:3]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: authority, conflict, military hierarchy; style notes: close-up shots, high contrast lighting, static framing emphasizing facial expressions and uniforms

A group of sailors and officers are shown in close-up, with one officer gesturing. The setting appears to be on a ship, as indicated by uniforms and headgear. No dialogue or on-screen text 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 6:12 (passage 6:10–6:22)

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