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Detour · Beat 46 · permalink

Vehicle interior

37:26–38:06 Registered 1945

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 37:4137:41Frame at 37:5737:57Frame at 38:0338:03

Play from 37:26 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 29 · shots 61–63. 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 fedora hat, dark suit, and tie, medium build, visible in driver's seat visible, audible
  • woman, light-colored blouse or dress, dark hair styled up, visible in passenger seat visible, audible
Seen happening
  • A man and a woman are seated in a car, facing forward. [frame:1]
  • The man turns his head to look at the woman while she looks ahead. [frame:2]
  • The man turns his head to look forward again, the woman remains in profile. [frame:3]
Also said
“You're a cheap crook and you killed him.” 37:57 · “For two cents, I'd change my mind and turn you in.” 37:57
Seen
car interior [frame:1], fedora hat [frame:1], suit and tie [frame:1], light blouse or dress [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and confrontational; themes: suspicion, betrayal, crime, moral ambiguity; style notes: tight framing on two characters in a car, high-contrast black-and-white lighting, close-ups emphasize facial expressions and dialogue-driven tension

Two people are in a car, one driving and one in the passenger seat, engaged in a tense conversation about money and a man named Charlie Haskell. The dialogue suggests suspicion and accusation, with one person threatening to turn the other in to the police.

“It won't do me any good having you pinched. The cops are no friends of mine.” 37:27 · “He told me he was going to bet $3,000. on a horse named Paradisicle on Wednesday at Santa Anita.” 37:57 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 37:41 (passage 37:26–38:06); US record: No renewal found

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