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Detour · Beat 72 · permalink

Vehicle interior

55:13–55:39 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 55:1555:15Frame at 55:2155:21Frame at 55:2755:27Frame at 55:3455:34

Play from 55:13 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 43 · shots 112–115. 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
  • Vera (named at t:55:14): woman with curly hair, wearing dark jacket, visible in car visible, audible
  • man wearing fedora, suit, and tie, visible in car visible, audible
Seen happening
  • The woman and man are seated in a car, facing each other. [frame:1]
Also said
“And there must be other relatives. So a father won't have to know you. We'll wait till he gives up the ghost. He's an old geezer and he won't pull through.” 55:14 · “And as far as other relatives are concerned, they haven't seen you in 15 or 20 years.” 55:14
Seen
car interior with steering wheel, fedora hat, dark jacket
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and conspiratorial; themes: identity deception, inheritance fraud, family betrayal; style notes: tight close-ups, high-contrast lighting, confined framing within car interior

A man and a woman are in a car, discussing a plan to impersonate a son to inherit from an elderly father. The woman, named Vera, is told she resembles the son and that relatives won't recognize her after many years.

“No one could possibly get away with an act like that. It'd be wise to me in a minute. Don't be, Yala. You look enough like him. The same coloring and the same build. See how his clothes fit you?” 55:14 · “Oh, grow up, Vera. Don't you think a father knows his own son?” 55:14 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 55:15 (passage 55:13–55:39); US record: No renewal found

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