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BattleshipPotemkin · Beat 87 · permalink

Ship

11:39–11:55 Released 1925

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 2 quotes checked against the transcript; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 11:4211:42Frame at 11:4711:47Frame at 11:5211:52

Play from 11:39 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 68 · shots 135–137. 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
  • man in dark naval uniform and cap, holding binoculars to his eyes visible
  • man in dark naval uniform and cap, walking away from camera, back visible visible
Seen happening
  • A man in uniform looks through binoculars on a ship deck. [frame:1]
  • A title card appears stating 'The men refused to eat the soup.' [frame:2]
  • A man in uniform walks on deck while another stands behind him. [frame:3]
Seen
naval uniform, binoculars, ship railing, title card with Russian and English text
On screen
Матросы отказались есть борщ The men refused to eat the soup.
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: disobedience, naval authority, conflict; style notes: static medium shots, high contrast black and white, intertitle used for exposition

Two men in naval uniforms are on a ship's deck; one uses binoculars while the other walks. A title card states the men refused to eat the soup. No names are spoken or visible.

“I'm sorry.” 11:42 · “Oh” 11:52 automatic transcript, may be wrong

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 11:42 (passage 11:39–11:55)

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