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Detour · Beat 95 · permalink

Street

1:06:24–1:07:38 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; 1 name 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 1:06:281:06:28Frame at 1:07:051:07:05

Play from 1:06:24 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 53 · shots 157–158. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
street (street, exterior) evidence: frame:1
Time of day
night evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in dark suit, fedora hat, medium build visible, audible
Seen happening
  • A man stands on a dark street near a lamppost and storefront. [frame:1]
  • The man turns away from the camera, looking toward a distant car on a dark road. [frame:2]
Also said
“And wonder what my life might have been if that car of Haskell's hadn't stopped.” 66:53 · “I know. Someday a car will stop to pick me up that I never thumbed.” 67:02
Seen
street lamp [frame:1], storefront with sign [frame:1], distant car [frame:2], fedora hat [frame:1], suit [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: melancholic and fatalistic; themes: fate, guilt, isolation, noir fatalism; style notes: high-contrast noir lighting, solitary figure framed against darkness, shallow depth of field emphasizing isolation

A man in a suit and hat stands alone on a dark street at night, looking toward a distant car. He speaks about being implicated in a murder and reflects on fate while the police search for a dead man.

“I was in Bakersfield before I read that Vera's body was discovered. That the police were looking for Haskell in connection with his wife's murder.” 66:29 · “The police were searching for a dead man.” 66:44 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 1:06:28 (passage 1:06:24–1:07:38); US record: No renewal found

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