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Detour · Beat 35 · permalink

Road

32:34–33:06 Registered 1945

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 1 quote checked against the transcript; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 32:3532:35Frame at 32:5232:52

Play from 32:34 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 26 · shots 40–41. 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
  • man, wearing dark clothes, sitting by car engine visible, audible
  • woman, wearing light blouse and dark skirt, carrying suitcase visible
Seen happening
  • man sits beside car with hood open [frame:1]
  • woman walks toward car carrying suitcase [frame:2]
Seen
car with open hood, suitcase, telephone poles, desert landscape
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and isolated; themes: loneliness, chance encounter, roadside vulnerability; style notes: low-angle shot of car, medium shot of woman; high-contrast black-and-white lighting; sparse desert setting

A man sits by a car with its hood open on a desert roadside while a woman with a suitcase walks toward him. The man calls out to her, offering a ride.

“Hey, you! Come on if you want a ride.” 32:35 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 32:35 (passage 32:34–33:06); US record: No renewal found

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