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Detour · Beat 79 · permalink

Living room

58:23–59:13 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 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 58:3158:31Frame at 58:5658:56

Play from 58:23 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech; cut falls inside a spoken line: no pause was available without exceeding the length cap. Sequence 44 · shots 132–133. 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:2
People
  • man, mid-30s, medium build, wearing a light-colored button-up shirt and dark trousers visible, audible
  • woman, mid-30s, wearing a dark dress with a low back, curly hair visible, audible
Seen happening
  • A man is shown in close-up, speaking with a serious expression. [frame:1]
  • A man and a woman stand in a room with a table between them; bottles and glasses are on the table. [frame:2]
Also said
“Here, Innocent, what do you got to be scared of?” 59:07 · “Okay. Call them in mud. Go ahead and call them. See if I care. At least they'll give me a square deal.” 59:09
Seen
bottles, glasses, table, lamp, framed pictures
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and confrontational; themes: conflict, threat, moral ambiguity; style notes: black-and-white, medium and close-up shots, high-contrast lighting emphasizing facial expressions

A man and a woman are in a tense conversation in a room with a table and bottles. The man stands while the woman leans on the table, and dialogue suggests a threat involving calling the police.

“I'm really doing you a favor.” 58:48 · “Suppose I call the cops.” 59:05 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 58:31 (passage 58:23–59:13); US record: No renewal found

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