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.
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.
Copies on the Internet Archive
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