LETTER OF INTRODUCTION

LETTER OF INTRODUCTION. 1938. 11 reels.

Director, John M. Stahl; original story, Bernice Boone; screenplay, Sheridan Gibney, Leonard Spigelgass; music director, Charles Previn.

Registration LP8194 No renewal found

Term began: 1938-08-08
Claimant: Universal Pictures Co., 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.

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 LP8194.

Catalog entry

Catalog of Copyright Entries, Motion Pictures 1912–1939 (Library of Congress, 1951), Project Gutenberg #51836, lines 130249–130256.

  LETTER OF INTRODUCTION. 1938. 11 reels.

    Credits: Director, John M. Stahl; original story, Bernice Boone;
    screenplay, Sheridan Gibney, Leonard Spigelgass; music director,
    Charles Previn.

    © Universal Pictures Co., Inc.; 8Aug38; LP8194.

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Item	Year	Downloads	Collection
Letter of Introduction	1938	23,744	Comedy_Films, feature_films

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