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Detour · Beat 22 · permalink

Vehicle interior

15:39–16:07 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 15:5315:53

Play from 15:39 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 18 · shots 24–24. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
(vehicle interior, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man wearing a hat and collared shirt, visible from chest up visible, audible
Seen happening
  • A man in a hat sits in the driver's seat of a car, looking toward the passenger side. [frame:1]
Seen
hat [frame:1], car interior with steering wheel and compartment [frame:1], small box in compartment [t:16:03]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and cautious; themes: social anxiety, unspoken rules, travel as vulnerability; style notes: tight framing on driver's face, high-contrast black-and-white lighting, classic noir composition

A man in a hat sits in the driver's seat of a car, looking toward the passenger side. He asks the passenger to hand him a box and to hold the wheel while he reaches for it. The transcript discusses the social rules of hitchhiking and the narrator's hesitation to speak to strangers.

“You know, Emily Post ought to write a book of rules for guys thumbing rides. Because as it is now, you never know what's right and what's wrong.” 15:50 · “Hand me that little box in the compartment, will you, pal? Hold the wheel, will you?” 16:03 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 15:53 (passage 15:39–16:07); US record: No renewal found

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