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Detour · Beat 18 · permalink

Restaurant

11:52–12:07 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; 5 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 12:0012:00

Play from 11:52 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 14 · shots 19–19. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
restaurant (restaurant, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in tuxedo, standing, medium build visible
  • woman seated in foreground, light hair, looking toward camera visible
  • patron seated at table, back to camera, wearing hat visible
  • patron seated at table, side profile, dark hair visible
  • unseen speaker audible
Seen happening
  • A man in a tuxedo stands in a restaurant while patrons sit at tables. [frame:1]
  • A woman in the foreground looks toward the camera. [frame:1]
Seen
checkered tablecloths [frame:1], tables and chairs [frame:1], curtains [frame:1], wall painting [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense, contemplative; themes: isolation, internal monologue, social setting; style notes: low-key lighting, medium shot, static framing, noir aesthetic

A man in a tuxedo stands in a dimly lit restaurant with patrons seated at checkered-tablecloth tables; a woman in the foreground looks toward the camera. A voice says, 'And I thought of something.'

“And I thought of something.” 11:53 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 12:00 (passage 11:52–12:07); US record: No renewal found

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