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Detour · Beat 57 · permalink

Living room

44:57–45:20 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; 2 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 45:0145:01Frame at 45:0745:07Frame at 45:1545:15

Play from 44:57 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 33 · shots 85–87. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
living_room (living room, interior) evidence: frame:1, frame:2, frame:3
People
  • woman, mid-adult, wearing a robe, seated on a couch visible
  • Roberts (named at t:45:08): man, mid-adult, wearing a white shirt and dark trousers, standing visible
Seen happening
  • A woman in a robe sits on a couch looking toward a standing man. [frame:1]
  • A man in a white shirt stands in a room with furniture. [frame:2]
  • The woman remains seated on the couch, now looking forward. [frame:3]
Also said
“You read that some? That's a kill, Roberts.” 45:08 · “Maybe that's what's wrong with the whole world.” 45:18
Seen
couch [frame:1], lamp [frame:2], vase [frame:3], side table [frame:3], robe [frame:1], white shirt [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and conversational; themes: existential reflection, interpersonal conflict, regret; style notes: static medium shots, high-contrast black-and-white lighting, minimal set dressing

A woman in a robe sits on a couch while a man in a white shirt stands nearby; dialogue suggests a tense conversation about life choices. The setting is an interior room with furniture and a lamp visible.

“Shit.” 44:58 · “But life's like a ball game.” 45:02 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 45:01 (passage 44:57–45:20); US record: No renewal found

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