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Detour · Beat 73 · permalink

Vehicle interior

55:39–56:02 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 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 55:4555:45Frame at 55:5755:57

Play from 55:39 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 43 · shots 116–117. 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 hat and suit, seated in driver's seat visible, audible
  • Vera (named at t:55:40): woman with curly hair and earrings, seated in passenger seat visible, audible
Seen happening
  • The man and woman are seated in a car, facing each other in conversation. [frame:1]
  • The woman speaks intently to the man, her expression serious. [frame:2]
Also said
“I could never get away with it. It's the stupidest thing I've ever heard.” 55:40 · “The old boy has scads of dough. Look in the paper there. Personal fortune assessed at over 15 million.” 55:40
Seen
car interior, hat, earrings
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and confrontational; themes: moral conflict, identity theft, greed, gendered persuasion; style notes: close framing on faces, high-contrast black-and-white lighting, intimate two-shot composition

A man and a woman are seated in a car, arguing about a plan involving stolen identity and wealth. The woman insists the man has resources to pull it off, citing a fortune of over 15 million, while he refuses to participate.

“Eat. I'm not hungry. And I won't do it.” 55:40 · “It's not as tough as it sounds. Remember, you've got all kinds of identification. His car, letters, license...” 55:40 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 55:45 (passage 55:39–56:02); US record: No renewal found

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