BELLS OF SAN FERNANDO

BELLS OF SAN FERNANDO. Hillcrest Productions, Inc., 1947. 74 min., sd., bé&w., 35mm. Credits: Director, Terry Morse; original story and screenplay, Jack De Witt and Renault Duncan

Registration LP893 No renewal found

Term began

1947-03-01

Claimant

Screen Guild Productions, 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 1231–1240.

BELLS OF SAN FERNANDO. Hillcrest 
Productions, Inc., 1947. 74 min., sd., 
bé&w., 35mm. 

Credits: Director, Terry Morse; 
original story and screenplay, Jack De 
Witt and Renault Duncan. 

© Screen Guild Productions, Inc., 
Hollywood; 1Mar47; LP893. 

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