MR. WONG, DETECTIVE

MR. WONG, DETECTIVE. 1938. 8 reels, sd. Based on the James Lee Wong series in Collier's Magazine, written by Hugh Wiley.

Associate producer, W. T. Lackey; director, William Nigh; screenplay, Houston Branch; film editor, Russell Schoengarth.

Registration LP8334 No renewal found

Term began

1938-10-05

Claimant

Monogram Pictures Corp

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.

Catalog entry

Catalog of Copyright Entries, Motion Pictures 1912–1939 (Library of Congress, 1951), Project Gutenberg #51836, lines 153947–153954.

  MR. WONG, DETECTIVE. 1938. 8 reels, sd. Based on the James Lee Wong
    series in Collier's Magazine, written by Hugh Wiley.

    Credits: Associate producer, W. T. Lackey; director, William Nigh;
    screenplay, Houston Branch; film editor, Russell Schoengarth.

    © Monogram Pictures Corp.; 5Oct38; LP8334.

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