{"canonical_url":"https://publicreel.org/film/36929","film_page_url":null,"answer":"Free in the US since 1 January 1965, on the registry's reading: registration LP6508 of 1936 by Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp was not renewed in the volumes searched.","revision_url":"https://publicreel.org/film/36929/evidence/f56ff14e","jurisdiction":"US","finding":"no-renewal-found","finding_label":"No renewal found","finding_reason":"no renewal entry found for 1963-1965 in the CCE motion-picture renewal sections","public_domain_from":"1965-01-01","finding_revision":"f56ff14e","finding_recorded":"2026-09-05 20:21:43.699877+00:00","review_status":"automated","title":"36 HOURS TO KILL","title_display":"36 Hours to Kill","registration_year":1936,"release_year":null,"sources":[{"name":"Catalog of Copyright Entries, Motion Pictures 1912–1939 (Library of Congress, 1951)","citation":"Project Gutenberg #51836","url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/51836","lines":[242896,242902]}],"limitations":["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.","The finding is about the US copyright record only; it is not legal advice and says nothing about other countries, underlying works, music, or a particular copy."],"entry":{"id":36929,"source":"pg51836","title":"36 HOURS TO KILL","header":"36 HOURS TO KILL. 1936. 5,700 ft., sd.","year":1936,"reels":null,"feet":5700,"sound":true,"credits":"Director, Eugene Forde; original story, W. R. Burnett; screenplay, Lou Breslow, John Patrick; music, Samuel Kaylin.","notes":[],"line_start":242896,"line_end":242902,"source_text":"  36 HOURS TO KILL. 1936. 5,700 ft., sd.\n\n    Credits: Director, Eugene Forde; original story, W. R. Burnett;\n    screenplay, Lou Breslow, John Patrick; music, Samuel Kaylin.\n\n    © Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp.; 24Jul36; LP6508.\n","ia_items":[],"ia_lookup":[{"queried_at":"2026-09-05 04:38:46.889054+00:00","num_found":0}],"atlas":[],"picture":null},"registrations":[{"id":44127,"entry_id":36929,"reg_number":"LP6508","series":2,"see_also":[],"reg_class":"LP","published":true,"claimant":"Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp","author":null,"deposit":null,"reg_date":"1936-07-24","part":null,"part_title":null,"source_line":242901,"raw":"© Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp.; 24Jul36; LP6508.","flags":[],"status":"no-renewal-found","pd_date":"1965-01-01","reason":"no renewal entry found for 1963-1965 in the CCE motion-picture renewal sections","match_kind":null,"match_confidence":null,"title_similarity":null,"renewals":[],"window":[1963,1964],"window_volumes":[{"year":1963,"ia_identifier":"catalogofcopyr3171213libr"},{"year":1964,"ia_identifier":"catalogofc19643181213libr"},{"year":1965,"ia_identifier":"catalogofc19653191213libr"}]}]}