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BattleshipPotemkin · Beat 393 · permalink

Ship

1:07:59–1:08:19 Released 1925

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 2 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 1:08:001:08:00Frame at 1:08:041:08:04Frame at 1:08:081:08:08Frame at 1:08:151:08:15

Play from 1:07:59 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 265 · shots 958–961. 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, frame:4
People
  • sailor in uniform, visible from chest up, holding a metal object visible
  • sailor in uniform, partially visible, standing near p1 visible
Seen
smoke [frame:1], ship's mast and rigging [frame:1, frame:2], sailor's uniform and cap [frame:3], metal object (possibly a pan or lid) [frame:3], ship's gun barrel [frame:4]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and chaotic; themes: conflict, naval warfare, industrial machinery; style notes: high-contrast black-and-white, dramatic shadows, tight framing on equipment and figures, suggesting urgency

The sequence shows a ship's deck and superstructure under dark, smoky conditions, with sailors visible near equipment. No dialogue or on-screen text is present, and the time of day or specific location cannot be determined from the visuals.

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 1:08:00 (passage 1:07:59–1:08:19)

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