Public Reel

THE PHANTOM EMPIRE

THE PHANTOM EMPIRE. Presented by Nat Levine. 1935. 2 reels each, except no. 1 which is 3 reels, sd.

Supervision, Armand Schaefer; directors, Otto Brower, B. Reeves Eason; story, Wallace MacDonald, Gerald Geraghty, H. Freedman; continuity, John Rathmell; film editors, Earl Turner, Walter Thompson.

Registration LP5358 No renewal found

Term began
1935-02-23
Claimant
Mascot Pictures Corp
Author
Wallace MacDonald and Gerald Geraghty, authors
Class
LP — published photoplay (numbering series begun Sept. 1928)
Finding
no renewal entry found for 1962-1964 in the CCE motion-picture renewal sections
In the public domain since
1 January 1964 (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 1962 or 1963 volume; volumes searched: 1962, 1963, 1964.

The renewal sections are OCR text of printed volumes; a damaged record can hide a renewal. Before relying on this, search the linked volumes yourself for the title and for number LP5358.

Registration LP5412 No renewal found

Term began
1935-02-23
Claimant
Mascot Pictures Corp
Author
Wallace MacDonald and Gerald Geraghty, authors
Class
LP — published photoplay (numbering series begun Sept. 1928)
Finding
no renewal entry found for 1962-1964 in the CCE motion-picture renewal sections
In the public domain since
1 January 1964 (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 1962 or 1963 volume; volumes searched: 1962, 1963, 1964.

The renewal sections are OCR text of printed volumes; a damaged record can hide a renewal. Before relying on this, search the linked volumes yourself for the title and for number LP5412.

Catalog entry

Catalog of Copyright Entries, Motion Pictures 1912–1939 (Library of Congress, 1951), Project Gutenberg #51836, lines 187664–187674.

  THE PHANTOM EMPIRE. Presented by Nat Levine. 1935. 2 reels each,
    except no. 1 which is 3 reels, sd.

    Credits: Supervision, Armand Schaefer; directors, Otto Brower, B.
    Reeves Eason; story, Wallace MacDonald, Gerald Geraghty, H.
    Freedman; continuity, John Rathmell; film editors, Earl Turner,
    Walter Thompson.

    © Mascot Pictures Corp. (Wallace MacDonald and Gerald Geraghty,
    authors); no. 1-6. 23Feb35; LP5358; no. 7-12, 23Feb35; LP5412.

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