JUDGE PRIEST

JUDGE PRIEST. 1934. 7,220 ft., sd. Based on the character created by Irvin S. Cobb.

Director, John Ford; screenplay, Dudley Nichols, Lamar Trotti; music director, Samuel Kaylin.

Registration LP4979 No renewal found

Term began: 1934-09-28
Claimant: Fox Film Corp
Class: LP — published photoplay (numbering series begun Sept. 1928)
Finding: no renewal entry found for 1961-1963 in the CCE motion-picture renewal sections
In the public domain since: 1 January 1963 (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 1961 or 1962 volume; volumes searched: 1961, 1962, 1963.

The renewal sections are OCR text of printed volumes; a damaged record can hide a renewal. Before relying on this, search the linked volumes yourself for the title and for number LP4979.

Catalog entry

Catalog of Copyright Entries, Motion Pictures 1912–1939 (Library of Congress, 1951), Project Gutenberg #51836, lines 120523–120530.

  JUDGE PRIEST. 1934. 7,220 ft., sd. Based on the character created by
    Irvin S. Cobb.

    Credits: Director, John Ford; screenplay, Dudley Nichols, Lamar
    Trotti; music director, Samuel Kaylin.

    © Fox Film Corp.; 28Sep34; LP4979.

Copies on the Internet Archive

Item	Year	Downloads	Collection
Judge Priest	1934	60,893	Comedy_Films, feature_films
Judge Priest (1934)	1934	207	feature_films_unsorted, feature_films
Judge Priest (1934)	1934	0	opensource_movies

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