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Detour · Beat 88 · permalink

Private office

1:02:07–1:02:35 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 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:02:101:02:10Frame at 1:02:201:02:20Frame at 1:02:311:02:31

Play from 1:02:07 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 50 · shots 146–148. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
(private office, interior) evidence: frame:2
People
  • man, dark curly hair, wearing a light-colored shirt, seen from behind or side visible, audible
  • Vera (named at t:62:10): woman, dark hair, wearing a light-colored dress, holding a telephone receiver visible, audible
Seen happening
  • A man stands facing a door, speaking. [frame:1]
  • Vera appears in a doorway holding a telephone receiver. [frame:2]
  • The man leans toward the door, appearing to push or kick it. [frame:3]
Also said
“Then I don't call the cops. Listen to me. I'll do anything you say.” 62:23 · “I'll break the phone.” 62:30
Seen
telephone receiver [frame:2], door [frame:1, frame:2, frame:3], small table [frame:3], figurine on table [frame:3], wall sconce [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and confrontational; themes: confrontation, power struggle, threat; style notes: tight framing on characters, high-contrast lighting, static camera emphasizing dialogue-driven action

A man demands that Vera open a door while holding a phone; she appears with the phone in hand. The man threatens to break down the door and the phone if she does not comply. No names are spoken that identify the man, and Vera is named only by the man in the transcript.

“Here, open the door. Here.” 62:07 · “Vera, open the door. Don't use the phone. Listen to me. I don't like you, Roberts. You're no gentleman, see? You hurt my hand, and I'm going to get even with you. If you don't open the door, I'm going to kick it down, Vera. Vera.” 62:10 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 1:02:10 (passage 1:02:07–1:02:35); US record: No renewal found

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