Public Reel

THE FIGHTING CODE

THE FIGHTING CODE. 1933. 7 reels, sd.

Screenplay and direction, Lambert Hillyer; film editor, Clarence Kolster.

Registration LP4330 Renewed

Term began
1933-12-12
Claimant
Columbia Pictures Corp
Class
LP — published photoplay (numbering series begun Sept. 1928)
Finding
renewal R287579 filed (date unreadable) by (claimant unreadable) (llm:date+title; CCE 1961, OCR line 49473)
Enters the public domain
1 January 2029 (95 years from the 1933 publication)

A renewal registration for this work was found. The renewed term lasts 95 years from the original date, so the work remains under copyright.

Renewal R287579 (link: llm:date+title, title similarity 1.00)

Renewal claimant
Renewal date
Original cited
None / 12bec33
Source
Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Motion Pictures, 1961: Internet Archive catalogofcopyr3151213libr, OCR text line 49473
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This link was made after a language model re-read the damaged OCR (deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4-Pro); the reading was accepted only because the number and date or title it reported agree with the catalog. Its note: “OCR text is heavily garbled. The renewal number R287579 appears on a line with '29Dec61' and is associated with 'THE FIGHTING CODE, a photoplay in seven reels by Columbia Pictures Corp.' and 'Screen Gems, Inc. (PWH)'. The original date is read as '12bec33' (likely 12Dec33) and original number as 'LPA320' (likely LP4320, but OCR shows LPA320). The title 'THE FIGHTING CODE' is the most plausible match from the surrounding text.”

Catalog entry

Catalog of Copyright Entries, Motion Pictures 1912–1939 (Library of Congress, 1951), Project Gutenberg #51836, lines 68577–68583.

  THE FIGHTING CODE. 1933. 7 reels, sd.

    Credits: Screenplay and direction, Lambert Hillyer; film editor,
    Clarence Kolster.

    © Columbia Pictures Corp.; 12Dec33; LP4330.

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