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Detour · Beat 91 · permalink

Bedroom

1:02:53–1:03:09 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 1:03:001:03:00Frame at 1:03:081:03:08

Play from 1:02:53 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 52 · shots 151–152. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
bedroom (bedroom, interior) evidence: frame:2
People
  • man, dark hair, wearing a white shirt and tie, medium build visible, audible
  • person lying down, face visible, wearing dark clothing visible
Seen happening
  • A man in a white shirt looks down and to the side while speaking. [frame:1]
  • A hand grips a bedpost above a person lying on their back. [frame:2]
Also said
“And now, after killing Vera without really meaning to do it,” 62:57 · “how many of you would believe it wasn't premeditated?” 62:57
Seen
bedpost, white shirt, tie, window blinds
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and confessional; themes: doubt, guilt, accidental violence; style notes: low-key lighting, tight framing on faces and hands, high contrast shadows

A man in a white shirt speaks in a dimly lit room while a second frame shows a hand gripping a bedpost above a person lying down. The transcript includes a monologue questioning belief in accidental events and a killing.

“The world is full of skeptics. I know. I'm one myself.” 62:57 · “In the Haskell business, how many of you would believe he fell out of the car?” 62:57 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 1:03:00 (passage 1:02:53–1:03:09); US record: No renewal found

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