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Detour · Beat 25 · permalink

Vehicle interior

17:24–18:42 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; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 18:0318:03

Play from 17:24 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech; cut falls inside a spoken line: no pause was available without exceeding the length cap. Sequence 18 · shots 28–28. 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 driving, wearing suit and tie, mid-30s, average build visible, audible
  • man passenger, wearing hat and coat, mid-30s, average build visible, audible
Seen happening
  • Two men sit in a car, one driving, one passenger, engaged in conversation. [frame:1]
Also said
“Stopped the car, opened the door.” 18:24 · “My dad owned a couple of Franco-Prussian sabers. Kept them on the wall for decorations.” 18:38
Seen
car interior, suit and tie, hat and coat
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and cynical; themes: gender roles, male bonding through shared cynicism, violence against women as casual anecdote; style notes: tight two-shot in car interior, high-contrast noir lighting, static camera

Two men are in a car at night, one driving and one in the passenger seat, discussing a woman the driver recently ejected. The conversation includes references to her being dangerous and the driver showing a scar.

“I was tussling with the most dangerous animal in the world. A woman.” 17:33 · “I tossed her out of the car in her ear.” 18:03 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 18:03 (passage 17:24–18:42); US record: No renewal found

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