LAW OF THE UNDERWORLD

LAW OF THE UNDERWORLD. 1938. 7 reels, sd. From the story "The Lost Game" and the Al H. Woods stage production by John B. Hymer and Samuel Shipman.

Producer, Robert Sisk; director. Lew Landers; screenplay, Bert Granet, Edmund L. Hartmann; editor, Ted Cheesman.

Registration LP8042 No renewal found

Term began

1938-05-04

Claimant

RKO Radio Pictures, Inc

Class

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

Finding

no renewal entry found for 1965-1967 in the CCE motion-picture renewal sections

In the public domain since

1 January 1967 (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 1965 or 1966 volume; volumes searched: 1965, 1966, 1967.

Catalog entry

Catalog of Copyright Entries, Motion Pictures 1912–1939 (Library of Congress, 1951), Project Gutenberg #51836, lines 128527–128535.

  LAW OF THE UNDERWORLD. 1938. 7 reels, sd. From the story "The Lost
    Game" and the Al H. Woods stage production by John B. Hymer and
    Samuel Shipman.

    Credits: Producer, Robert Sisk; director. Lew Landers; screenplay,
    Bert Granet, Edmund L. Hartmann; editor, Ted Cheesman.

    © RKO Radio Pictures, Inc.; 4May38; LP8042.

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