THE PAINTED DESERT

THE PAINTED DESERT. 1931. 8 reels, sd., b&w.

Producer, E. B. Derr; director, Howard Higgin; story, Tom Buckingham, Howard Higgin; film editor, Clarence Kolster; music director, Francis Gromon.

Registration LP1896 No renewal found

Term began

1931-01-12

Claimant

Pathe Exchange, Inc

Class

LP — published photoplay (numbering series begun Sept. 1928)

Finding

no renewal entry found for 1958-1960 in the CCE motion-picture renewal sections

In the public domain since

1 January 1960 (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 1958 or 1959 volume; volumes searched: 1958, 1959, 1960.

Catalog entry

Catalog of Copyright Entries, Motion Pictures 1912–1939 (Library of Congress, 1951), Project Gutenberg #51836, lines 175790–175797.

  THE PAINTED DESERT. 1931. 8 reels, sd., b&w.

    Credits: Producer, E. B. Derr; director, Howard Higgin; story, Tom
    Buckingham, Howard Higgin; film editor, Clarence Kolster; music
    director, Francis Gromon.

    © Pathe Exchange, Inc.; 12Jan31; LP1896.

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