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Detour · Beat 85 · permalink

Private office

1:00:37–1:01:40 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 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:01:081:01:08

Play from 1:00:37 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 48 · shots 142–142. 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
  • man, dark hair, wearing an unbuttoned white shirt and dark trousers, medium build visible, audible
  • Vera (named at t:60:45): woman, curly hair, wearing a light-colored dress with buttons down the front, holding a glass visible, audible
Seen happening
  • The woman holds a glass and stands close to the man, who looks at her with concern. [frame:1]
Also said
“There's a cute little gas chamber waiting for you, Roberts. And I hear extradition to Arizona's Ascension. Where's that phone? - Vera. - Leave me alone. - Vera. I want a phone call, please.” 61:11 · “I hate you, you stinker. You leave me alone! I'll let you alone when you promise to leave the phone where it is. You're drunk. You don't know what you're doing. You're hurting me. Will you promise?” 61:26
Seen
glass [frame:1], unbuttoned white shirt [frame:1], light-colored dress with buttons [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and confrontational; themes: moral conflict, threat of legal consequences, alcohol-fueled confrontation; style notes: tight two-shot, high-contrast lighting, static framing emphasizing emotional intensity

A man and a woman argue in a room; the woman threatens to call the police while holding a glass, and the man resists. The dialogue reveals a plot involving a scar, a dead father, and potential extradition.

“His people never saw that scar. He told me he ran away right after putting out the kid's eye. Yeah, but his father knew he was cut.” 60:37 · “The old man's dead or will be, I hope by tomorrow morning's papers. Anyway, you can cut yourself a little, couldn't you? Boy, for that kind of dough, I'd let you cut my leg off. You're drunk and you're crazy mad, Vera. Turn me in if you want to, but I won't get mixed up in this. Besides, how do we know? Haskell was such a phony. Maybe he wasn't the man's son at all. Maybe he just dreamed it up. Well, dream it or not, you won't be dreaming when the law attacks you on the shoulder.” 60:45 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 1:01:08 (passage 1:00:37–1:01:40); US record: No renewal found

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