BIG TOWN AFTER DARK

sd., b&w., 35mm. Based on the radio program, ‘Big Town.” Credits: Producers, William H. Pine and William C. Thomas; director, William C. Thomas; film editor, Howard Smith; original screenplay, Whitman Chambers. Cast: Philip Reed, Hillary Brooke, Richard Travis, Anne Gillis, Vince Barnett, and others

Registration LP1351 No renewal found

Term began

1947-12-12

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 14809–14822.

Pictures, Inc., 1947, 70 min., sd., 
b&w., 35mm. Based on the radio pro- 
gram, ‘Big Town.” 

Credits: Producers, William H. Pine 
and William C. Thomas; director, 
William C. Thomas; film editor, Howard 
Smith; original screenplay, Whitman 
Chambers. Cast: Philip Reed, Hillary 
Brooke, Richard Travis, Anne Gillis, 
Vince Barnett, and others. 

© Paramount Pictures, Inc., New York; 
12Dec47; LP1351. 

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