IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE

Doren Stern, Credits: Producer and director, Frank Capra; film editor, William Hornsbeck; screenplay, Frances Goodrich, Albert Hackett and Frank Capra; writer and director of musical score, Dimitri Tiomkin. Cast: James Stewart, Donna Reed, Lionel Barrymore, Thomas Mitchell, Henry Travers, and others

Registration LP833 No renewal found

Term began

1947-02-06

Claimant

Liberty Films, Inc., Los Angeles

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 5377–5390.

Philip Van Doren Stern, 

Credits: Producer and director, 
Frank Capra; film editor, William 
Hornsbeck; screenplay, Frances 
Goodrich, Albert Hackett and Frank 
Capra; writer and director of musical 
score, Dimitri Tiomkin. Cast: James 
Stewart, Donna Reed, Lionel Barry- 
more, Thomas Mitchell, Henry Tra- 
vers, and others. 

© Liberty Films, Inc., Los Angeles; 
6Feb47; LP833. 

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