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THE LOCKED DOOR

THE LOCKED DOOR. United Artists. Presented by Joseph M. Schenck. 1929. 8 reels, sd. Based on the play "The Sign on the Door" by Channing Pollock.

Producer and director, George Fitzmaurice; scenario, C. Gardner Sullivan; dialogue, George Scarborough.

Registration LP801 Copyright term expired

Term began
1929-10-29
Claimant
Feature Productions, Inc
Class
LP — published photoplay (numbering series begun Sept. 1928)
Finding
copyright term began 1929-10-29; the maximum term (28 + 67 years) ended before 2026-01-01
In the public domain since
1 January 2025 (maximum 95-year term from 1929)

The copyright term began before 1931. Under US law every such term, renewed or not, ended before 2026-01-01.

Renewal R163998 (link: number+date, title similarity 1.00)

Renewal claimant
Mary Pickford (PWH)
Renewal date
1957-01-03
Original cited
L801 / 290ct29
Source
Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Motion Pictures, 1957: Internet Archive catalogofcopyrig3111213li, OCR text line 20349
1yMar57; R188705. 
THE LOCKED DOOR, a photoplay in eight 
reels by Channing Pollock. 
© 290ct29; L801. Mary Pickford 
(PWH); 3Jan57; R163998. 
LONE RIDER, a photoplay in two reels 
by Universal Pictures Corp. 
© 23Jul29; LPSyO. Universal 

Catalog entry

Catalog of Copyright Entries, Motion Pictures 1912–1939 (Library of Congress, 1951), Project Gutenberg #51836, lines 134581–134590.

  THE LOCKED DOOR. United Artists. Presented by Joseph M. Schenck. 1929.
    8 reels, sd. Based on the play "The Sign on the Door" by Channing
    Pollock.

    Credits: Producer and director, George Fitzmaurice; scenario, C.
    Gardner Sullivan; dialogue, George Scarborough.

    © Feature Productions, Inc.; (Channing Pollock, author) 29Oct29;
    LP801.

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