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Detour · Beat 62 · permalink

Shop

50:12–51:37 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 50:5550:55

Play from 50:12 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech; cut falls inside a spoken line: no pause was available without exceeding the length cap. Sequence 35 · shots 96–96. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
(shop, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man, wearing a hat and suit, driving visible, audible
  • Farrah Haskell (named at t:51:04): woman, seated in passenger seat, wearing light-colored top visible, audible
  • unseen, voice heard audible
Seen happening
  • The man and woman are seated in a car, visible in a street scene with buildings and palm trees. [frame:1]
Also said
“You're my wife, Farrah Haskell.” 51:04 · “Good afternoon. What can I do for you? We're interested in selling a car. If the price is right.” 51:32
Seen
car interior [frame:1], buildings with signage [frame:1], palm trees [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and transactional; themes: deception, partnership under pressure, economic survival; style notes: black-and-white, medium shot from outside the car, natural daylight, framing emphasizes the two characters and their proximity

A man and a woman are in a car, discussing selling it and adopting false identities. They arrive at a used car lot and speak to a salesman.

“Do I rate a whistle? You sure do, but let's go.” 50:20 · “I spent 85 bucks in two hours preparing bait and all you can say is let's go.” 50:36 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 50:55 (passage 50:12–51:37); US record: No renewal found

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