Beware Spooks! 1939

BEWARE SPOOKS! 1939. 7 reels, sd. Based on a play by Richard Flournoy.

Renewed Under US copyright until 31 December 2034: registration LP9188 of 1939 by Columbia Pictures Corp was renewed (R417058); it enters the public domain on 1 January 2035.

Finding revision 6242cbf9, first recorded 5 September 2026. A revision id changes when the finding, its reason or its linked renewals change.

Producer, Robert Sparks; director, Edward Sedgwick; screenplay, Richard Flournoy, Albert Duffy, Brian Marlow; film editor, James Sweeney; music director, M. W. Stoloff.

Registration LP9188 Renewed

Term began: 1939-10-24
Claimant: Columbia Pictures Corp
Class: LP — published photoplay (numbering series begun Sept. 1928)
Finding: renewal R417058 filed 1967-09-08 by Columbia Pictures Corp (number+date; CCE 1967, OCR line 37980)
Enters the public domain: 1 January 2035 (95 years from the 1939 publication)

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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 R417058 (link: number+date, title similarity 0.74)

Renewal claimant: Columbia Pictures Corp (PWH)
Renewal date: 1967-09-08
Original cited: LP9188 / 240ct39
Source: Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Motion Pictures, 1967: Internet Archive catalogofc19673211213libr, OCR text line 37980

BEWARE SPOOKS. a photoplay in seven 
reels by Columbia Pictures Corp. 
© 240ct39; LP9188. Columbia Pictures 
Corp. (PWH); 8Sep67; R417058. 
A BILL OF DIVORCEMENT, a photoplay by

Catalog entry

Catalog of Copyright Entries, Motion Pictures 1912–1939 (Library of Congress, 1951), Project Gutenberg #51836, lines 17005–17012.

  BEWARE SPOOKS! 1939. 7 reels, sd. Based on a play by Richard Flournoy.

    Credits: Producer, Robert Sparks; director, Edward Sedgwick;
    screenplay, Richard Flournoy, Albert Duffy, Brian Marlow; film
    editor, James Sweeney; music director, M. W. Stoloff.

    © Columbia Pictures Corp.; 24Oct39; LP9188.

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