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Detour · Beat 31 · permalink

Road

27:32–28:14 Registered 1945

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 2 quotes checked against the transcript; 3 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 27:3727:37Frame at 27:5327:53Frame at 28:0928:09

Play from 27:32 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 23 · shots 34–36. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
road (road, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • Charles Haskell, Jr. (named at t:27:50): man in car, wearing suit and tie, dark hair, middle-aged visible, audible
  • officer, uniformed, cap, standing outside car visible
  • officer, uniformed, cap, leaning into car window visible
Seen
car [frame:1], State Stop Officers sign [frame:1], uniforms [frame:2], hat [frame:3]
On screen
STATE STOP OFFICERS
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: authority, identity verification, travel restrictions; style notes: low-angle shots, high-contrast lighting, tight framing on faces

A man in a car is questioned by two uniformed officers at a roadside checkpoint. The officers ask about luggage and verify his identity as Charles Haskell, Jr., while he states he will only be in the state briefly.

“Hello. Carrying any fruits or vegetables? Any livestock or poultry? No.” 27:41 · “driver's license please. Anything in the baggage compartment? What's baggage? Charles Haskell, Jr. Aids, 30 brown eyes, dark hair, identifying marks none. Are you Charles Haskell, Jr.? Yes. Well, remember, if you're employed and you stay over 30 days, you take out California plates. All right, officer, but I'll only be in the state a short while.” 27:50 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 27:37 (passage 27:32–28:14); US record: No renewal found

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