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Detour · Beat 42 · permalink

Vehicle interior

35:38–36:01 Registered 1945

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 3 quotes checked against the transcript; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 35:5035:50

Play from 35:38 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 27 · shots 53–53. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
vehicle_interior (vehicle interior, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man wearing a hat and suit, seated in driver's seat visible
  • Vera (named at t:35:59): woman with dark hair, seated in passenger seat visible
Seen happening
  • A woman and a man are seated in a car, facing forward. [frame:1]
Mentioned
  • The man realizes Vera is the woman Haskell mentioned and that Haskell is alive and in the car with him. [t:35:59]
Also said
“That Haskell guy wasn't dead yet. He wasn't stretched out stiff and cold in any Arizona gully. He was sitting right there in the car laughing like mad while he haunted me.” 35:59
Seen
car interior, hat
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and ominous; themes: suspicion, confrontation, unreliable memory; style notes: black-and-white, medium shot from outside the car, high-contrast lighting emphasizing facial expressions

A man and a woman are seated in a car; the woman appears to be confronting the man. The transcript indicates the man realizes Vera is the woman Haskell mentioned and that Haskell is alive and in the car with him.

“and it all came back to me. All the talk about dually and scars and scratches. There was no doubt about it. Vera must be the woman Haskell had mentioned.” 35:59 · “She must have passed me while I slept. Well? Well, I'm waiting. My goose was cooked. She had me.” 35:59 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 35:50 (passage 35:38–36:01); US record: No renewal found

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