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Detour · Beat 27 · permalink

Vehicle interior

20:01–23:20 Registered 1945

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks flagged: time_of_day without evidence. 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 21:4021:40

Play from 20:01 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 19 · shots 30–30. 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 glasses, visible in driver's seat, awake visible, audible
  • Haskell (named at t:22:56): man sleeping in passenger seat, face obscured visible
Also said
“I drove all that night while Haskell slept like a log. After a while, I began to get sleepy myself. I was happy, though. Soon I'd be with Sue again. The long trip was practically over, and there'd be no more hoofing it down the concrete. I began to think of the future,” 21:33 · “Mr. Haskell, I'm gonna put up the top.” 23:15
Seen
car interior [frame:1], glasses [frame:1], sleeping man [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: nocturnal, reflective, weary; themes: loneliness, regret, aspiration, road trip, betrayal; style notes: low-key lighting, tight framing on car interior, monochrome, dialogue-driven

A man speaks in a car at night while another sleeps; the speaker reflects on money, racing, and a woman named Sue. The car interior is dark, and dialogue references a trip, a bookie past, and plans to return to Florida.

“I'll wait out here for you mister.” 20:16 · “Well, that's why you're... Pascal, make nothing out of it. You make your first million, maybe you can do the same for me. Come on, New York. I gotta make the West Coast by Wednesday. The horse running in Santa Anita named Powered Bicycle.” 20:21 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 21:40 (passage 20:01–23:20); US record: No renewal found

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