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Detour · Beat 16 · permalink

Private office

11:25–11:36 Registered 1945

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 1 quote checked against the transcript; 2 names 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 11:3111:31

Play from 11:25 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 12 · shots 17–17. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
private_office (private office, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in light-colored shirt, standing, handing money visible
  • Roberts (named at t:11:26): man in dark suit, seated, receiving money visible, audible
Seen happening
  • A man in a light shirt hands money to a seated man in a dark suit. [frame:1]
Seen
money [frame:1], dark curtains [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: money exchange, unspoken tension; style notes: black-and-white, medium close-up, high contrast lighting, static framing

A man in a light shirt hands money to a seated man in a dark suit; the transcript indicates the seated man is named Roberts and has won ten dollars. The scene is indoors with dark curtains in the background.

“Say, Roberts, you hit the jackpot this time. Ten bucks.” 11:26 automatic transcript, may be wrong

The record

No renewal found An automated finding, not a verdict. A renewal would have appeared in the Copyright Office's renewal registrations 27 to 29 years after the term began. Those volumes are loaded and our parse of them found no matching renewal. If that is right, a work published 1931–1963 that was not renewed entered the public domain at the end of its 28th year; the volumes are OCR of old print, and the method page reports how often the parse has been found to miss one. Evidence dossier. 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 Detour (1945) at 11:31 (passage 11:25–11:36); US record: No renewal found

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