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Detour · Beat 77 · permalink

Private office

57:47–58:01 Registered 1945

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 1 quote 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 57:5357:53Frame at 58:0058:00

Play from 57:47 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 44 · shots 127–128. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
private_office (private office, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • woman with curly hair, wearing a light-colored blouse, earrings visible visible
  • man with dark hair, wearing a light-colored open-collared shirt visible
Seen happening
  • The woman is visible in a close-up, looking toward the man. [frame:1]
  • The man is visible in a close-up, looking toward the woman. [frame:2]
Seen
earrings, light-colored blouse, light-colored open-collared shirt
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: threat, consequence, moral accountability; style notes: close-up shots, high-contrast lighting, black-and-white film stock, tight framing on faces

A woman and a man are in a dimly lit interior, speaking about legal consequences and a rope. The woman is visible in frame 1, the man in frame 2, both shown in close-up.

“Even if you did tell the cops I was in on it with you, what could they do to me? They might give me the same medicine they gave you. Yeah. A rope.” 57:49 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 57:53 (passage 57:47–58:01); US record: No renewal found

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