DICK TRACY’S DILEMMA

‘Mick Tracy’’, created by Chester Gould, Credits; Producer, Herman Schlom; director, John Rawlins; film editor, Marvin Coil; screenplay, Robert Stephen Brode; musical director C. Bakaleinikoff; music by Paul Sawtell. Cast: Ralph Byrd, Lyle Latell, Kay Christopher, Jack Lambert, Ian Keith, and others

Registration LP1070 No renewal found

Term began

1947-05-21

Claimant

RKO Radio 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 16009–16023.

atrip ‘Mick Tracy’’, created by Chester 
Gould, 

Credits; Producer, Herman Schlom; 
director, John Rawlins; film editor, 
Marvin Coil; screenplay, Robert 
Stephen Brode; musical director 
C. Bakaleinikoff; music by Paul Saw- 
tell. Cast: Ralph Byrd, Lyle Latell, 
Kay Christopher, Jack Lambert, Ian 
Keith, and others, 

© RKO Radio Pictures, Inc., 

New York; 21May47; LP1070. 

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