Public Reel

MIDNIGHT INTRUDER

MIDNIGHT INTRUDER. 1938. 7 reels. Based on a novel by Channing Pollock.

Associate producer, Trem Carr; director, Arthur Lubin; screenplay, George Waggner, Lester Cole; film editor, Bernard Burton.

Registration LP7781 Renewed

Term began
1938-02-01
Claimant
Universal Pictures Co., Inc
Class
LP — published photoplay (numbering series begun Sept. 1928)
Finding
renewal R568581 filed 1965-09-22 by LP778i. Universal Pictures Co., Inc (title+window; CCE 1965, OCR line 43481)
Enters the public domain
1 January 2034 (95 years from the 1938 publication)

A renewal registration for this work was found. The renewed term lasts 95 years from the original date, so the work remains under copyright.

Renewal R568581 (link: title+window, title similarity 1.00)

Renewal claimant
LP778i. Universal Pictures Co., Inc (PWH)
Renewal date
1965-09-22
Original cited
None / 1Feb58
Source
Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Motion Pictures, 1965: Internet Archive catalogofc19653191213libr, OCR text line 43481
reels 
© 1Feb58; LP778i. Universal Pictures 
Co., Inc. (PWH); 22Sep65; R568581. 
MIDNIGHT TRAGEDY. See 
RED BARRY. 

Low confidence: neither the number nor the date in this record could be read; the title alone matched, and it is the only such title in the renewal window.

Catalog entry

Catalog of Copyright Entries, Motion Pictures 1912–1939 (Library of Congress, 1951), Project Gutenberg #51836, lines 150723–150731.

  MIDNIGHT INTRUDER. 1938. 7 reels. Based on a novel by Channing
    Pollock.

    Credits: Associate producer, Trem Carr; director, Arthur Lubin;
    screenplay, George Waggner, Lester Cole; film editor, Bernard
    Burton.

    © Universal Pictures Co., Inc.; 1Feb38; LP7781.

Copies on the Internet Archive

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Midnight Intruder19384,070Comedy_Films, feature_films

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