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Detour · Beat 83 · permalink

Private office

59:42–1:00:13 Registered 1945

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 3 quotes checked against the transcript; 1 name 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 59:5859:58

Play from 59:42 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 46 · shots 140–140. 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 earrings, mid-20s to 30s, medium build visible, audible
Seen happening
  • Woman speaks intensely, face visible in close-up. [frame:1]
Also said
“I reminded her that as Charles Haskell I didn't even know my mother's name, where I'd gone to school, the name of my best friend, whether I had an Aunt Emma or not, my religion, and if I'd ever owned a dog.” 60:00
Seen
earrings [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense, confrontational; themes: identity crisis, deception, escalating conflict; style notes: close-up framing, high-contrast lighting, black-and-white film stock, minimal background detail

A woman speaks intensely in a dimly lit interior, demanding a phone number from the Hollywood police station while recounting a tense conversation about identity gaps. No names are spoken, and no objects beyond her face and earrings are visible.

“I want the number at the Hollywood police station.” 59:47 · “Now let's talk this over. This was early in the evening and the conversation while hectic was at least pitched low. But as the minutes passed and more obstacles to her plan popped into my head, the air got blue. Each word coming from our lips cracked like a whip.” 60:00 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 59:58 (passage 59:42–1:00:13); US record: No renewal found

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