BattleshipPotemkin · Beat 395 · permalink

Ship

1:08:31–1:08:46 Released 1925

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 1 name checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

1:08:36

1:08:44

Play from 1:08:31 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 265 · shots 967–968. 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, wearing a cap, holding a large cylindrical object visible

Seen happening

a silhouetted figure holds a large object against a smoky sky [frame:1]
the figure remains in silhouette as smoke billows behind [frame:2]

Seen

large cylindrical object (possibly a cannon or pipe) [frame:1], smoke [frame:1], rigging or ropes [frame:1]

Interpretation

Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense, chaotic; themes: conflict, revolution, anonymity of the individual in mass action; style notes: high-contrast silhouettes, dramatic backlighting, static framing

Two frames show a silhouetted figure holding a large object against a smoky sky, with no visible or audible dialogue. The setting appears to be a ship's deck during a chaotic event, as suggested by smoke and the presence of rigging.

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 1:08:36 (passage 1:08:31–1:08:46)

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Figure for a newsletter or page: <figure><a href="https://publicreel.org/moment/BattleshipPotemkin/b395"><img src="https://publicreel.org/atlas-img/BattleshipPotemkin/0967.webp" alt="Frame from BattleshipPotemkin (1925) at 1:08:36 (passage 1:08:31–1:08:46)" width="640"></a><figcaption>BattleshipPotemkin (1925), 1:08:31–1:08:46. Internet Archive copy BattleshipPotemkin; US record: see dossier. Via Public Reel.</figcaption></figure>
Cite: Public Reel, "BattleshipPotemkin (1925), 1:08:31–1:08:46", https://publicreel.org/moment/BattleshipPotemkin/b395, from Internet Archive item BattleshipPotemkin, retrieved 6 September 2026.

Ship

Evidence and details

The record

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