 Interior scenes were filmed on the cruiser "Komintern".Stock footage of "Potemkin"-class ships were used to show her at sea, and stock footage of the French fleet depicted the waiting Russian Black Sea fleet, as was anachronistic footage of triple-gun-turret Russian Dreadnoughts

In the film the rebels raise the red flag on the battleship, but the orthochromatic black-and-white film stock of that period made a red flag look black, so a white flag was used instead.This was handtinted red for 108 frames by Eisenstein himself for the premiere at the Grand Theatre, which was greeted with thunderous applause by the Bolshevik audience.