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Detour · Beat 5 · permalink

Private office

5:14–6:14 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; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 5:445:44

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Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 5 · shots 4–4. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
private_office (private office, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • Sue (named at t:5:56): man wearing fedora and dark jacket, mid-adult, thin face, serious expression visible, audible
Also said
“A joint where you could have a sandwich and a few drinks and run interference for your girl on the dance floor.” 5:49 · “Then, too, there was Sue, who made working there a little like working in heaven.” 6:08
Seen
fedora hat, dark jacket
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: melancholic and reflective; themes: nostalgia, romantic longing, working-class life; style notes: close-up framing, high-contrast lighting, noir aesthetic

A man in a fedora speaks about his past job at a small club and mentions a woman named Sue. The scene is a close-up shot of him, with no visible environment beyond his face and hat.

“that you love me. And after all is said and done to think that I'm the lucky one, I can't believe that you're in love with me.” 5:23 · “It wasn't much of a club, really.” 5:45 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 5:44 (passage 5:14–6:14); US record: No renewal found

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