Public Reel

BEL AMI

the novel of the same name by Guy de Maupassant. Application author: Tobis Zeigt, Germany. Credits: Director, Willi Forst, adapted for the screen by Willi Forst and Axel Eggebrecht; music, Theo Mackeben. Cast: Olga Tschechova, Ilse Werner, Hilde Hildebrand, Lizzi Waldmueller, Willi Forst, and others

Registration LP849 No renewal found

Term began
1947-02-26
Claimant
Levinson-Finney Enterprises, Inc., Hollywood
Class
LP — published photoplay (numbering series begun 1946)
Finding
no renewal entry found for 1974-1976 in the CCE motion-picture renewal sections
In the public domain since
1 January 1976 (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 1974 or 1975 volume; volumes searched: 1974, 1975, 1976.

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Catalog entry

Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Parts 12–13: Motion Pictures, 1947, Internet Archive catalogofcopyrig31121libr (OCR text), lines 1168–1183.

reels, sd., b&w., 35mm. From the 
novel of the same name by Guy de 
Maupassant. 

Application author: Tobis Zeigt, 
Germany. 

Credits: Director, Willi Forst, 
adapted for the screen by Willi Forst 
and Axel Eggebrecht; music, Theo 
Mackeben. Cast: Olga Tschechova, 
Ilse Werner, Hilde Hildebrand, Lizzi 
Waldmueller, Willi Forst, and others. 

© Levinson-Finney Enterprises, Inc., 
Hollywood; 26Feb47; LP849. Prev. 

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