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Detour · Beat 50 · permalink

Apartment

39:54–41:39 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; 3 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 40:4640:46

Play from 39:54 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 30 · shots 70–70. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
apartment (living room, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man wearing a fedora and suit, carrying a suitcase visible, audible
  • woman with curled hair, wearing a light blouse, standing at a desk visible, audible
  • woman in dark dress, standing behind a desk visible, audible
Seen happening
  • The man and woman stand at a desk with a clerk, checking into an apartment. [frame:1]
Also said
“as Mrs. Charles Haskell. When I objected to this, she explained that it was on account of the car.” 40:49 · “In case there's any doubt in your mind, I'll take the bedroom.” 41:16
Seen
suitcase [frame:1], desk [frame:1], folding bed [t:41:35]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and claustrophobic; themes: distrust, false identities, forced proximity; style notes: tight framing on three characters in a small interior; high-contrast lighting typical of film noir

A man and a woman check into an apartment under false names; the woman insists on taking the bedroom while the man is told to keep windows shut. The narrator reflects on growing distance from a woman named Sue despite arriving in Hollywood.

“From now on, you and I are like the Siamese twins.” 40:00 · “A few hours later we were in Hollywood. I was recognizing places Sue had written about.” 40:31 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 40:46 (passage 39:54–41:39); US record: No renewal found

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