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Detour · Beat 26 · permalink

Vehicle interior

18:42–20:01 Registered 1945

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 4 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 19:2219:22

Play from 18:42 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 29–29. 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, mid-30s, wearing a suit and tie, visible in a vehicle interior visible, audible
Seen happening
  • The man is visible in a vehicle, looking tense and speaking. [frame:1]
Also said
“I was 15 16 years ago. I haven't been home since.” 19:47 · “I'm hungry. I hadn't had anything in my stomach for hours.” 20:00
Seen
suit and tie, vehicle interior
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and confessional; themes: childhood trauma, flight from consequences, hunger and desperation; style notes: black-and-white, tight framing on the man's face, high-contrast lighting emphasizing his expression

A man recounts a violent childhood incident involving a duel with another boy, resulting in injury and his subsequent flight from home. He then expresses hunger and concern about being perceived as desperate while seeking food.

“Now, give me that box again, will you? Yeah.” 19:03 · “Pain made me lose my head, I guess. I began slashing. Before I knew it, I put the other kid's eye out.” 19:18 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 19:22 (passage 18:42–20:01); US record: No renewal found

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