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IF I WERE FREE

IF I WERE FREE. 1933. 7 reels, sd. From the play "Behold We Live" by John Druten.

Associate producer, Kenneth MacGowan; director, Elliott Nugent; screenplay, Dwight Taylor; film editor, Arthur Roberts; music director, Max Steiner.

Registration LP4341 Renewed

Term began
1933-12-01
Claimant
RKO Radio Pictures, Inc
Class
LP — published photoplay (numbering series begun Sept. 1928)
Finding
renewal R268813 filed 1961-01-04 by RKO Radio Pictures, a division of RKO General, Inc (number+title; CCE 1961, OCR line 25126)
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 R268813 (link: number+title, title similarity 1.00)

Renewal claimant
RKO Radio Pictures, a division of RKO General, Inc (PWH)
Renewal date
1961-01-04
Original cited
LP4341 / 1Dec55
Source
Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Motion Pictures, 1961: Internet Archive catalogofcopyr3151213libr, OCR text line 25126
IF I WERE FREE, a photoplay in seven 
reels by RKO Radio Pictures. 
© 1Dec55; LP4341. RKO Radio Pictures, 
a division of RKO General, Inc. (PWH); 
4Jan61; R268813. 
IN JAVA SEA, a motion picture in one 

Catalog entry

Catalog of Copyright Entries, Motion Pictures 1912–1939 (Library of Congress, 1951), Project Gutenberg #51836, lines 110433–110441.

  IF I WERE FREE. 1933. 7 reels, sd. From the play "Behold We Live" by
    John Druten.

    Credits: Associate producer, Kenneth MacGowan; director, Elliott
    Nugent; screenplay, Dwight Taylor; film editor, Arthur Roberts;
    music director, Max Steiner.

    © RKO Radio Pictures, Inc.; 1Dec33; LP4341.

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