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Detour · Beat 29 · permalink

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23:43–25:19 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; 1 name 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 24:3124:31

Play from 23:43 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 21 · shots 32–32. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
other (other, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • Mr. Haskell (named at t:23:46): man wearing a dark hat and coat, sweating, mid-adult, thin build visible, audible
Seen happening
  • A man in a hat speaks to the camera about Haskell's death and his own actions afterward. [frame:1]
Also said
“I saw it once. He was dead. And I was in for it.” 24:09 · “My idea was to cover him with brush, not to rob him. But then I remembered that even if I only drove the car for 100 miles or so, I would need money for gas.” 25:16
Seen
hat [frame:1], coat [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense, confessional; themes: guilt, fear of justice, self-preservation; style notes: close-up shot, high-contrast lighting, shadowed face, black-and-white film

A man in a hat speaks directly to the camera, recounting a story about Haskell's death and his decision to hide the body and flee. He mentions witnesses, the police, and needing money for gas.

“Mr. Haskell, what's the matter?” 23:46 · “But I know what you're gonna hand me even before you open your mouths.” 23:55 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 24:31 (passage 23:43–25:19); US record: No renewal found

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