IT HAPPENED OUT WEST
IT HAPPENED OUT WEST. Presented by Twentieth Century-Fox. 1937. 6 reels, sd. Based on a work by Harold Bell Wright.
Producer, Sol Lesser; director, Howard Bretherton; screenplay, Earle Snell, John Roberts; film editors, Arthur Hilton, Olive Hofman.
Registration LP7171 No renewal found
- Term began
- 1937-05-07
- Claimant
- Principal Productions, Inc
- Class
- LP — published photoplay (numbering series begun Sept. 1928)
- Finding
- no renewal entry found for 1964-1966 in the CCE motion-picture renewal sections
- In the public domain since
- 1 January 1966 (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 1964 or 1965 volume; volumes searched: 1964, 1965, 1966.
Catalog entry
Catalog of Copyright Entries, Motion Pictures 1912–1939 (Library of Congress, 1951), Project Gutenberg #51836, lines 116750–116758.
IT HAPPENED OUT WEST. Presented by Twentieth Century-Fox. 1937. 6
reels, sd. Based on a work by Harold Bell Wright.
Credits: Producer, Sol Lesser; director, Howard Bretherton;
screenplay, Earle Snell, John Roberts; film editors, Arthur Hilton,
Olive Hofman.
© Principal Productions, Inc.; 7May37; LP7171.
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