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BattleshipPotemkin · Beat 400 · permalink

Ship

1:09:56–1:10:27 Released 1925

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 2 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:09:581:09:58Frame at 1:10:121:10:12Frame at 1:10:151:10:15Frame at 1:10:251:10:25

Play from 1:09:56 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: on-screen text appears or ends. Sequence 268 · shots 985–990. 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
Seen happening
  • Title card displays 'Все на одного' and 'All against one.' [frame:1]
  • Deck of a ship with coiled rope and metal structures is shown. [frame:2]
  • Battleship's cannons and superstructure are visible against the sea. [frame:3]
  • Title card displays 'ОДИН НА ВСЕХ' and 'One against all.' [frame:4]
Seen
coiled rope, battleship cannons, ship superstructure
On screen
[{'text': 'Все на одного\nAll against one.', 'frame': 1}, {'text': 'ОДИН НА ВСЕХ\nOne against all.', 'frame': 4}]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and confrontational; themes: collective vs. individual, power imbalance, naval might; style notes: high-contrast black-and-white, static shots, intertitles used for thematic emphasis

The beat shows title cards with the phrases 'All against one' and 'One against all' in Russian and English, interspersed with shots of a battleship's deck and cannons. No people are visible or audible, and no specific time or place is established beyond the ship's exterior.

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 1:09:58 (passage 1:09:56–1:10:27)

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