THE KENNEL MURDER CASE

THE KENNEL MURDER CASE. 1933. 8 reels, sd. From the story by S. S. Van Dine [pseud. of Willard Huntington Wright].

Director, Michael Curtiz; screenplay, Robert N. Lee, Peter Milne; adaptation, Robert Presnell.

Registration LP4270 No renewal found

Term began

1933-11-22

Claimant

Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc

Class

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

Finding

no renewal entry found for 1960-1962 in the CCE motion-picture renewal sections

In the public domain since

1 January 1962 (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 1960 or 1961 volume; volumes searched: 1960, 1961, 1962.

Catalog entry

Catalog of Copyright Entries, Motion Pictures 1912–1939 (Library of Congress, 1951), Project Gutenberg #51836, lines 122468–122475.

  THE KENNEL MURDER CASE. 1933. 8 reels, sd. From the story by S. S. Van
    Dine [pseud. of Willard Huntington Wright].

    Credits: Director, Michael Curtiz; screenplay, Robert N. Lee, Peter
    Milne; adaptation, Robert Presnell.

    © Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc.; 22Nov33; LP4270.

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