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BattleshipPotemkin · Beat 366 · permalink

Ship

1:01:01–1:01:20 Released 1925

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:01:051:01:05Frame at 1:01:121:01:12Frame at 1:01:161:01:16Frame at 1:01:191:01:19

Play from 1:01:01 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 257 · shots 877–880. 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
  • silhouetted figure on ship's rigging, holding onto ropes or mast visible
  • silhouetted figure standing on a platform or crow's nest on the mast visible
  • silhouetted figure visible near the base of the mast in frame 4 visible
Seen
{'item': "ship's mast and rigging", 'evidence': 'frame:1'} [frame:1], {'item': 'chains and ropes', 'evidence': 'frame:1'} [frame:1], {'item': "crow's nest or platform on mast", 'evidence': 'frame:2'} [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and dramatic; themes: conflict, isolation, authority; style notes: high-contrast silhouette lighting, static framing focused on vertical structure of the mast, emphasizing scale and isolation

Four frames show silhouetted figures on the rigging and mast of a ship against a bright sky. No dialogue or on-screen text is present, and no specific individuals are named or identifiable.

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 1:01:05 (passage 1:01:01–1:01:20)

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