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Detour · Beat 3 · permalink

Bar

2:57–4:50 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 3:543:54

Play from 2:57 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 3 · shots 2–2. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
bar (bar, interior) evidence: t:4:10
People
  • Sue (named at t:4:19): man wearing a hat, visible in shadow, appears middle-aged visible, audible
Seen happening
  • A man in a hat is shown in close-up, looking distressed. [frame:1]
Also said
“Sue?” 4:19 · “She was always selling it too.” 4:22
Seen
hat
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: melancholic and tense; themes: memory, regret, nostalgia, isolation; style notes: low-key lighting, tight close-up, high contrast shadows

A man in a hat is shown in a dimly lit interior, speaking about music he dislikes and reflecting on past memories tied to a song and a woman named Sue. The transcript includes dialogue about freedom to play music and nostalgia for a club in New York.

“Hey, turn that off. You turn that thing off. What's eating you now? Yeah, what's eating you? That music, it stinks.” 2:58 · “I used to love that song once. So did the customers back in the old Break of Dawn Club in New York.” 4:10 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 3:54 (passage 2:57–4:50); US record: No renewal found

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