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Detour · Beat 21 · permalink

Road

15:29–15:39 Registered 1945

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; 1 name 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 15:3415:34

Play from 15:29 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 17 · shots 23–23. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
road (road, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man wearing a hat and light-colored shirt, seated in driver's position visible
Seen happening
  • Man in hat sits in driver's seat of convertible. [frame:1]
Seen
convertible car [frame:1], hat [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: travel, instruction, automobile; style notes: black-and-white, medium shot, natural outdoor lighting, static framing

A man in a hat sits in the driver's seat of a convertible car. He is told to ensure the door is closed before they depart.

“Not the backseat.” 15:30 · “Okay, let's go. Make sure that door is closed.” 15:33 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 15:34 (passage 15:29–15:39); US record: No renewal found

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