THE BIG FLASH

THE BIG FLASH. 1932. 22 min., sd.

Producer and director, Arvid E. Gillstrom; story, Robert Vernon, Frank Griffin.

Registration LP3590 No renewal found

Term began: 1932-11-06
Claimant: Educational Film Exchanges, Inc
Class: LP — published photoplay (numbering series begun Sept. 1928)
Finding: no renewal entry found for 1959-1961 in the CCE motion-picture renewal sections
In the public domain since: 1 January 1961 (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 1959 or 1960 volume; volumes searched: 1959, 1960, 1961.

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 LP3590.

Catalog entry

Catalog of Copyright Entries, Motion Pictures 1912–1939 (Library of Congress, 1951), Project Gutenberg #51836, lines 17561–17567.

  THE BIG FLASH. 1932. 22 min., sd.

    Credits: Producer and director, Arvid E. Gillstrom; story, Robert
    Vernon, Frank Griffin.

    © Educational Film Exchanges, Inc.; 6Nov32; LP3590.

Copies on the Internet Archive

Item	Year	Downloads	Collection
The Big Flash	1932	2,949	short_films, moviesandfilms

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