Public Reel

I COVER BIG TOWN

nt Pictures, Inc., 1947. 63 min., sd., b&w., 35mm. Based on the radio program, “Big Town.’ Credits: Producers, William H. Pine and William C. Thomas; director, William C. Thomas; editor, Howard Smith; original screenplay, Whitman Chambers. Cast: Philip Reed, Hillary Brooke, Robert Lowery, and others

Registration LP1117 No renewal found

Term began
1947-07-25
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.

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Catalog entry

Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Parts 12–13: Motion Pictures, 1947, Internet Archive catalogofcopyrig31121libr (OCR text), lines 17412–17424.

I COVER BIG TOWN. Paramount Pictures, 
Inc., 1947. 63 min., sd., b&w., 35mm. 
Based on the radio program, “Big Town.’ 

Credits: Producers, William H. Pine 
and William C. Thomas; director, Wil- 
liam C. Thomas; editor, Howard Smith; 
original screenplay, Whitman Chambers. 
Cast: Philip Reed, Hillary Brooke, 
Robert Lowery, and others, 

© Paramount Pictures, Inc., New York; 
25jul47; LP1117. 

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