JAMAICA INN

JAMAICA INN. Pommer-Laughton Mayflower, England. 1939. 9 reels, sd. Adapted from the novel by Daphne Du Maurier.

Producer, Erich Pommer; director, Alfred Hitchcock; screenplay, Sidney Gilliat, Joan Harrison; additional dialogue, J. B. Priestley; editor, Robert Hamer; music director, Frederick Lewis; music, Eric Fenby.

Registration LP9183 No renewal found

Term began

1939-10-02

Claimant

Paramount Pictures, Inc

Author

Mayflower Pictures Corp., Ltd., author

Class

LP — published photoplay (numbering series begun Sept. 1928)

Finding

no renewal entry found for 1966-1968 in the CCE motion-picture renewal sections

In the public domain since

1 January 1968 (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 1966 or 1967 volume; volumes searched: 1966, 1967, 1968.

Catalog entry

Catalog of Copyright Entries, Motion Pictures 1912–1939 (Library of Congress, 1951), Project Gutenberg #51836, lines 117978–117988.

  JAMAICA INN. Pommer-Laughton Mayflower, England. 1939. 9 reels, sd.
    Adapted from the novel by Daphne Du Maurier.

    Credits: Producer, Erich Pommer; director, Alfred Hitchcock;
    screenplay, Sidney Gilliat, Joan Harrison; additional dialogue, J.
    B. Priestley; editor, Robert Hamer; music director, Frederick Lewis;
    music, Eric Fenby.

    © Paramount Pictures, Inc. (Mayflower Pictures Corp., Ltd., author);
    2Oct39; LP9183.

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