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Detour · Beat 24 · permalink

Vehicle interior

16:34–17:24 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; 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 16:5916:59

Play from 16:34 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 18 · shots 27–27. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
vehicle_interior (vehicle interior, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man wearing a hat and light shirt, seated in passenger seat visible
  • man wearing a hat and dark shirt, driving, with visible scratches on right hand visible, audible
Seen happening
  • Two men are seated in a car, one driving, one passenger. [frame:1]
Mentioned
  • The passenger notices deep scratches on the driver's right hand. [t:17:13]
Seen
car interior with steering wheel and rearview mirror [frame:1], scratches on driver's right hand [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and conversational; themes: travel, mystery, physical injury as narrative clue; style notes: black-and-white, medium shot from front, naturalistic lighting, confined framing emphasizing dialogue

Two men are in a car, one driving and one in the passenger seat, discussing travel to Los Angeles and the driver's hand scratches. The passenger notices the scratches and the driver acknowledges them with a comment.

“You can drive a car? Sure. Whenever you're tired, let me know. I'll holler.” 17:06 · “I guess at least an hour passed before I noticed those deep scratches in his right hand. They were wicked. Three puffy red lines about a quarter of an inch apart. He must have seen me looking at them because he said... Beauties, aren't they? They're gonna be scars someday.” 17:13 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 16:59 (passage 16:34–17:24); US record: No renewal found

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