LITTLE FRIEND

LITTLE FRIEND. 1934. 9 reels, sd. Based on the novel by Ernst Lothar.

Associate producer, Robert Stevenson; direction and adaptation, Berthold Viertel; scenario and dialogue, Margaret Kennedy, Christopher Isherwood; film editor, Ian Dalrymple.

Registration LP5069 No renewal found

Term began

1934-08-26

Claimant

Gaumont British Picture Corp. of America

Author

Gaumont British Picture Corp., Ltd., author

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.

Catalog entry

Catalog of Copyright Entries, Motion Pictures 1912–1939 (Library of Congress, 1951), Project Gutenberg #51836, lines 132910–132918.

  LITTLE FRIEND. 1934. 9 reels, sd. Based on the novel by Ernst Lothar.

    Credits: Associate producer, Robert Stevenson; direction and
    adaptation, Berthold Viertel; scenario and dialogue, Margaret
    Kennedy, Christopher Isherwood; film editor, Ian Dalrymple.

    © Gaumont British Picture Corp. of America (Gaumont British Picture
    Corp., Ltd., author); 26Aug34; LP5069.

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