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THE BURNING CROSS

THE BURNING CROSS. Somerset Pictures Corp., 1947. 77 min., sd., b&w., 35mm. Credits ; Producer and director, Walter Colmes; film editor, Jason Bernie; screenplay, Aubrey Wisberg; musical score, Ralph Stanley. Cast: Hank Daniels, Virginia Patton, and others

Registration LP1187 No renewal found

Term began
1947-09-01
Claimant
Somerset Pictures Corp., Holly wood
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.

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Catalog entry

Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Parts 12–13: Motion Pictures, 1947, Internet Archive catalogofcopyrig31121libr (OCR text), lines 15268–15280.

THE BURNING CROSS. Somerset Pictures 


Corp., 1947. 77 min., sd., b&w., 35mm. 

Credits ; Producer and director, Wal- 
ter Colmes; film editor, Jason Bernie; 
screenplay, Aubrey Wisberg; musical 
score, Ralph Stanley. Cast: Hank 
Daniels, Virginia Patton, and others. 

© Somerset Pictures Corp., Holly - 
wood; 1Sep47; LP1187. 

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