BIG TOWN
b&w., 35mm. Based on the radio program, ‘‘Big Town.” Credits: Producers, William H. Pine and William C. Thomas; director, William C. Thomas; editor, Henry Adams; original story, Geoffrey Homes and Maxwell Shane; screenplay, Geoffrey Homes. Cast: Philip Reed, Hillary Brooke, Robert Lowery, and others
Registration LP1004 No renewal found
- Term began
- 1947-02-10
- Claimant
- Paramount Pictures, Inc., New York
- 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 1341–1355.
1947. 60 min., sd., b&w., 35mm. Based on the radio program, ‘‘Big Town.” Credits: Producers, William H. Pine and William C. Thomas; direct- or, William C. Thomas; editor, Henry Adams; original story, Geoffrey Homes and Maxwell Shane; screen- play, Geoffrey Homes. Cast: Philip Reed, Hillary Brooke, Robert Lowery, and others. © Paramount Pictures, Inc., New York; 10Feb47; LP1004.
Copies on the Internet Archive
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