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Detour · Beat 9 · permalink

Private office

8:36–9:54 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 9:159:15

Play from 8:36 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 7 · shots 9–9. 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
  • Al (named at t:9:05): man wearing a fedora and dark suit, medium build, adult visible, audible
  • woman wearing a dark hat and coat, adult visible, audible
Seen happening
  • A man and a woman stand facing each other in a dimly lit room. [frame:1]
Also said
“What I'm doing is the only same thing to do. I hate the thought of being so far away from you, but... but we'll be together again someday.” 9:17 · “Al, aren't you going to kiss me goodnight? Sure, why not?” 9:32
Seen
fedora hat [frame:1], dark suit [frame:1], wall-mounted lamp [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and melancholic; themes: separation, sacrifice, uncertain future; style notes: low-key lighting, tight two-shot, high contrast shadows, noir aesthetic

A man and a woman stand close in a dimly lit interior, speaking emotionally about separation and future reunion. The woman asks for a kiss goodnight, and the man agrees before the scene ends.

“I'll make out all right. Maybe. But what about me? Doesn't it mean anything to you that you're busting up all our plans?” 8:44 · “Al, why can't you see my side of it? I'm young.” 9:05 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 9:15 (passage 8:36–9:54); US record: No renewal found

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