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Detour · Beat 93 · permalink

Private office

1:04:25–1:06:13 Registered 1945

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 1 name checked for a spoken or on-screen source; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:05:191:05:19

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Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech; cut falls inside a spoken line: no pause was available without exceeding the length cap. Sequence 52 · shots 155–155. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
(private office, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in light shirt, seen in silhouette, medium build visible, audible
Also said
“I was like a guy suffering from shock. Things were whirling around in my head. I couldn't make myself think right. All I could think of was the guy with the saxophone and what he was playing. It wasn't a love song anymore. It was a dirge.” 64:46 · “But my problems weren't solved. I had to stay away from New York for all time. Because Al Roberts was listed as dead and had to stay dead. And I could never go back to Hollywood. Someone might recognize me as Haskell.” 65:49
Seen
man in light shirt, dim lighting
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: guilty, desperate, introspective; themes: guilt, identity, flight, consequence; style notes: low-key lighting, high contrast, silhouette framing, static shot

A man stands in a dimly lit interior, speaking in voiceover about guilt and flight after a death. He mentions being unable to return to New York or Hollywood and references a woman named Sue.

“I was cooked. Done for. I had to get out of there.” 64:27 · “While once I'd remained beside a dead body, planning carefully how to avoid being accused of killing him, this time I couldn't. This time I was guilty.” 64:32 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 1:05:19 (passage 1:04:25–1:06:13); US record: No renewal found

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