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BattleshipPotemkin · Beat 56 · permalink

Jail

9:35–9:40 Released 1925

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 1 name checked for a spoken or on-screen source; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 9:379:37

Play from 9:35 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 43 · shots 101–101. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
jail (jail, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • multiple figures behind bars, indistinct clothing and features due to lighting and grain visible
Seen
vertical metal bars [frame:1], shadows and light patterns on wall [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: claustrophobic and tense; themes: confinement, oppression; style notes: high-contrast lighting, low-angle shot emphasizing bars, grainy black-and-white film texture

A group of people are visible behind vertical bars in a dimly lit space. No dialogue or on-screen text is present in this beat.

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 9:37 (passage 9:35–9:40)

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