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Detour · Beat 20 · permalink

Map of oklahoma

13:25–15:29 Registered 1945

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 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 14:2714:27

Play from 13:25 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: on-screen text appears or ends. Sequence 16 · shots 22–22. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
map of Oklahoma (other) evidence: frame:1
People
  • unseen, voice only audible
Also said
“It's the stuff you never have enough of. Little green things with George Washington's picture that men slave for, commit crimes for, die for.” 14:09 · “Thumbing rides may save your bus fare, but it's dangerous. You never know what's in store for you when you hear the squeal of brakes.” 15:14
Seen
map of Oklahoma
On screen
Yale O'Keene Hennessey Stillwater Sapulpa EdmondO Chandler Brist inton Oklahoma Blanchard Anadarko Norman Purcell Wewoka Chickasha Fort Sill auls Valley
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: resigned and foreboding; themes: economic hardship, travel as necessity, foreshadowing danger; style notes: static shot of a map with voiceover; no camera movement; high-contrast black and white; text-heavy frame

A character narrates their decision to hitchhike across the country due to lack of money, expressing skepticism about the romanticism of the practice and foreshadowing danger. The only visual is a map of Oklahoma with labeled towns and highways.

“No, don't try to stop me. Just expect me.” 13:26 · “The only way I could cross country was to come rides. Or even after hocking everything I only had enough money to eat. Money.” 14:00 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 14:27 (passage 13:25–15:29); US record: No renewal found

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