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BattleshipPotemkin · Beat 378 · permalink

Ship

1:04:49–1:05:02 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; 0 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:04:491:04:49Frame at 1:04:541:04:54Frame at 1:04:561:04:56Frame at 1:05:011:05:01

Play from 1:04:49 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 257 · shots 915–920. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
ship (ship, exterior) evidence: frame:2, frame:3, frame:4
People
  • sailor in profile, wearing a uniform collar, seen in low light visible
  • sailor seen from behind, wearing a dark uniform with horizontal stripes and a cap visible
  • sailor in light uniform and cap, standing on deck visible
  • sailor in light uniform and cap, raising arm visible
Seen happening
  • A sailor is shown in profile in a dark setting. [frame:1]
  • The side of a ship and its rigging are shown over water. [frame:2]
  • A close-up of the ship's rigging and hull over water. [frame:3]
  • Several sailors are visible on the deck of the ship. [frame:4]
Seen
ship [frame:2, frame:3, frame:4], rigging [frame:2, frame:3], sailor uniform [frame:1, frame:4], sailor cap [frame:4]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and somber; themes: naval discipline, collective action, maritime setting; style notes: high-contrast black-and-white, dramatic lighting, static framing, medium and close shots emphasizing texture and form

A sailor is shown in profile against a dark background, followed by shots of a ship's side and rigging at sea, and finally a group of sailors on deck. No dialogue or on-screen text is present in this sequence.

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 1:04:49 (passage 1:04:49–1:05:02)

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