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BattleshipPotemkin · Beat 401 · permalink

Ship

1:10:27–1:10:53 Released 1925

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

Frame at 1:10:291:10:29Frame at 1:10:391:10:39Frame at 1:10:471:10:47Frame at 1:10:531:10:53

Play from 1:10:27 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 991–1002. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
ship (ship, interior) evidence: frame:1, frame:2
People
  • sailor wearing striped shirt and cap, visible in frame:2 visible
  • sailor wearing light-colored uniform, visible in frame:2 visible
Seen happening
  • A flag is shown flying from a ship's mast. [frame:1]
  • Two sailors shake hands in a dark interior space. [frame:2]
  • A close-up of the muzzle of a cannon is shown. [frame:3]
  • The cannon's muzzle remains in view. [frame:4]
Seen
flag [frame:1], ship's mast and rigging [frame:1], sailor's striped shirt [frame:2], sailor's cap [frame:2], cannon muzzle [frame:3, frame:4]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and anticipatory; themes: solidarity, military readiness, revolutionary symbolism; style notes: high-contrast black and white, tight framing on symbolic objects (flag, cannon), dramatic lighting in interior shot

A flag is shown on a ship's mast, followed by two sailors shaking hands in a dark interior, and then a close-up of a cannon's muzzle. No dialogue or on-screen text is present in these frames.

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 1:10:29 (passage 1:10:27–1:10:53)

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