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Detour · Beat 55 · permalink

Private office

43:51–44:39 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; 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 44:1544:15

Play from 43:51 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 32 · shots 82–82. 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
  • unseen, voice heard audible
  • Roberts (named at t:44:13): unseen, voice heard audible
Seen happening
  • A bottle of liquor sits on a table. [frame:1]
Also said
“There's a prima donna's corset.” 44:24 · “That's good. I wanted to get tied.” 44:25
Seen
liquor bottle [frame:1], table [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense, intimate, slightly ominous; themes: alcohol, desire, confinement, personal trouble; style notes: black-and-white, tight framing on objects, low-key lighting, minimal set

A character speaks about being out of liquor and wanting to get tight, while a bottle sits on a table. The dialogue suggests tension and personal trouble, with a reference to a corset and a wish to be tied.

“We're out of liquor, Roberts.” 44:13 · “I felt like getting tight tonight.” 44:18 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 44:15 (passage 43:51–44:39); US record: No renewal found

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