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Detour · Beat 63 · permalink

Vehicle interior

51:37–51:50 Registered 1945

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 2 quotes checked against the transcript; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 51:4251:42Frame at 51:4851:48

Play from 51:37 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 36 · shots 97–98. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
vehicle_interior (vehicle interior, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man wearing a fedora and suit, medium build, adult visible, audible
  • woman with curly hair, wearing dark top, adult visible, audible
Seen happening
  • A man holds a hat while sitting in a car next to a woman. [frame:1]
  • The woman looks at the man while speaking. [frame:2]
Seen
fedora hat, car interior with steering wheel and dashboard, car interior with visible gear shift and dashboard
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense or skeptical; themes: automobile valuation, interpersonal tension, negotiation; style notes: close two-shot, high-contrast black-and-white lighting, confined framing within car interior

A man and a woman are in a car; the man holds a hat and looks at the woman while she speaks. The transcript mentions a car's value and a motor inspection.

“Well, if it's in good mechanical condition, it should blue book for about $1,600.” 51:40 · “Tony, take a look at this motor. $1,600. Are you kidding?” 51:45 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 51:42 (passage 51:37–51:50); US record: No renewal found

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