THE GIRL WAS YOUNG
THE GIRL WAS YOUNG. 1938. 8 reels, sd. Based on the novel "A Shilling for Candles" by Josephine Tey [pseud. of Elizabeth Mackintosh].
Director, Alfred Hitchcock; screenplay, Charles Bennett, Edwin Greenwood, Anthony Armstrong; continuity, Alma Reville; dialogue, Gerald Savory; film editor, Charles Frend; music director, Louis Levy.
Registration LP7926 No renewal found
- Term began
- 1938-01-30
- Claimant
- Gaumont British Picture Corp. of America
- Author
- Gaumont British Picture Corp., Ltd., author
- Class
- LP — published photoplay (numbering series begun Sept. 1928)
- Finding
- no renewal entry found for 1965-1967 in the CCE motion-picture renewal sections
- In the public domain since
- 1 January 1967 (end of the 28th year, no renewal)
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 no matching renewal was found. A work published 1931–1963 that was not renewed entered the public domain at the end of its 28th year.
A renewal had to be filed in the 28th year and would be listed in the 1965 or 1966 volume; volumes searched: 1965, 1966, 1967.
Catalog entry
Catalog of Copyright Entries, Motion Pictures 1912–1939 (Library of Congress, 1951), Project Gutenberg #51836, lines 83548–83558.
THE GIRL WAS YOUNG. 1938. 8 reels, sd. Based on the novel "A Shilling
for Candles" by Josephine Tey [pseud. of Elizabeth Mackintosh].
Credits: Director, Alfred Hitchcock; screenplay, Charles Bennett,
Edwin Greenwood, Anthony Armstrong; continuity, Alma Reville;
dialogue, Gerald Savory; film editor, Charles Frend; music director,
Louis Levy.
© Gaumont British Picture Corp. of America (Gaumont British Picture
Corp., Ltd., author); 30Jan38; LP7926.
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