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Detour · Beat 7 · permalink

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6:46–7:26 Registered 1945

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 7:067:06

Play from 6:46 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 6 · shots 7–7. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
other (other, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man, wearing a fedora and dark coat, smoking a cigarette visible, audible
  • woman, wearing a beret and light coat, with a brooch visible, audible
Seen happening
  • A man smokes a cigarette while a woman looks at him. [frame:1]
Also said
“I'll make my debut in the basement.” 7:03 · “I don't blame you for being bitter, darling, but you mustn't give up hope. Why, someday... Yeah, someday. If I don't get arthritis first. In the meantime, let's blow this trap.” 7:05
Seen
cigarette [frame:1], fedora [frame:1], beret [frame:1], brooch [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: sardonic and resigned; themes: disillusionment, class aspiration, cynicism; style notes: tight close-up, high-contrast black-and-white lighting, minimal background detail

A man and a woman are shown in a close-up; the man smokes a cigarette. The transcript includes dialogue about Carnegie Hall, being a janitor, and leaving a place called 'this trap.'

“Mr. Paderewski, I presume. It's beautiful. You're going to make Carnegie Hall yet, Al? Yeah.” 6:55 · “As a janitor.” 7:01 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 7:06 (passage 6:46–7:26); US record: No renewal found

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