THE MANDARIN MYSTERY

THE MANDARIN MYSTERY. 1936. 7 reels. Based on "The Chinese Orange Mystery" by Ellery Queen [pseud.]

Producer, Nat Levine; director, Ralph Staub; screenplay, John Francis Larkin, Rex Taylor, Gertrude Orr, Cortland Fitzsimmons.

Registration LP6777 No renewal found

Term began: 1936-12-07
Claimant: Republic Pictures Corp
Class: LP — published photoplay (numbering series begun Sept. 1928)
Finding: no renewal entry found for 1963-1965 in the CCE motion-picture renewal sections
In the public domain since: 1 January 1965 (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 1963 or 1964 volume; volumes searched: 1963, 1964, 1965.

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 LP6777.

Catalog entry

Catalog of Copyright Entries, Motion Pictures 1912–1939 (Library of Congress, 1951), Project Gutenberg #51836, lines 144719–144726.

  THE MANDARIN MYSTERY. 1936. 7 reels. Based on "The Chinese Orange
    Mystery" by Ellery Queen [pseud.]

    Credits: Producer, Nat Levine; director, Ralph Staub; screenplay,
    John Francis Larkin, Rex Taylor, Gertrude Orr, Cortland Fitzsimmons.

    © Republic Pictures Corp.; 7Dec36; LP6777.

Copies on the Internet Archive

Item	Year	Downloads	Collection
The Mandarin Mystery	1936	37,656	Comedy_Films, feature_films

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