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BattleshipPotemkin · Beat 51 · permalink

Beat 51

8:38–8:40 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 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 8:398:39

Play from 8:38 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 39 · shots 93–93. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

People
  • Wearing a heavy coat and a hat, possibly a military or sailor’s cap; build appears average; face obscured by shadow and angle. visible
Seen happening
  • A person grips a long object, possibly a rifle, in a low-angle close-up. [frame:1]
Seen
rifle or long firearm [frame:1], heavy coat [frame:1], hat [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense, focused; themes: conflict, individual action, military; style notes: low-angle close-up, high contrast lighting, stark composition emphasizing the figure and weapon

A person in a heavy coat and hat is shown from a low angle, gripping a rifle or similar long object. The scene is a close-up with no visible background or context beyond the figure and the object.

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 8:39 (passage 8:38–8:40)

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