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Detour · Beat 76 · permalink

Living room

57:08–57:47 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; 1 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 57:1357:13Frame at 57:2157:21Frame at 57:3257:32Frame at 57:4357:43

Play from 57:08 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 44 · shots 123–126. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
living_room (living room, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man, mid-20s to 30s, wearing a light-colored button-up shirt, dark hair styled back visible, audible
  • Vera (named at t:57:18): woman, mid-20s to 30s, curly hair, wearing a draped top or robe, earrings visible visible, audible
Seen happening
  • The man and woman sit at a table with drinks and a bottle, engaged in conversation. [frame:1]
  • The woman looks down, appearing contemplative or distressed. [frame:2]
  • The man looks concerned or anxious, speaking to the woman. [frame:3]
  • The man and woman continue their conversation at the table, maintaining eye contact. [frame:4]
Also said
“Eighteen points. That gives me thirty. How will I be out? You'll be out. Eighteen hundred and fifty dollars we would have gotten on the car. Really, Vera, you'll be an awful chump. You threw away all that dough and a dizzy long shot.” 57:18 · “Let me sell the bus tomorrow. With the money it'll bring and what you've already got, a clever kid like you can run it up in no time. Then we'd both be in the clear. I'll be in the clear anyway. Maybe.” 57:28
Seen
table [frame:1], lamp [frame:1], bottle [frame:1], glasses [frame:1], couch [frame:1], framed pictures [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and anxious; themes: moral dilemma, fear of consequences, desperation, manipulation; style notes: tight two-shots and close-ups, low-key lighting creating shadows, intimate framing emphasizing emotional tension

A man and a woman sit at a table in a dimly lit room, discussing the consequences of being caught with a car and the possibility of a murder charge. The woman urges the man to sell a bus to clear their situation, while he expresses doubt and fear.

“I'll realize if I'm caught.” 57:08 · “They'll want to know where I got the car and stuff. And they'll have me on a murder charge. You're smart. You won't get caught. Try not for seven. And if I'm caught, don't you realize you'll be out too?” 57:09 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 57:13 (passage 57:08–57:47); US record: No renewal found

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